Isaiah 26:15-18

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.