Isaiah 26:11-18

11O Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.

12O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.

13O Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance.

14They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.

15But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.

17Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O Lord;

18we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.