Isaiah 26:10–18
10Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the LORD’s majesty.↗
11LORD, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.↗
12LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.↗
13LORD our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name.↗
14The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.↗
15You have increased the nation, O LORD. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.↗
16LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.↗
17Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, LORD.↗
18We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.↗
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