In Context

13 Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

14 They are dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.

15 Thou hast increased the nation, Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified. Thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

16 Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out their whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

17 As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.

18 We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Isaiah 26:16 in Other Translations