Isaiah 26:14-18

The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.

You have increased the nation, Lord, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

Lord, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your discipline was upon them.

As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains; This is how we were before You, Lord.

We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born.