Isaiah 26:13-19

13O Lord, our God, masters other than you have ruled us, but we praise your name alone.

14The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

15You have made the nation larger, O Lord, you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, you have extended all the borders of the land.

16O Lord, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.

17As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O Lord.

18We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.

19Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.