Isaiah 26:13-19

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.

19Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.