Isaiah 26:15-18

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.