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16 O Lord, in distress they sought thee,
    they poured out a prayer[a]
    when thy chastening was upon them.
17 Like a woman with child,
    who writhes and cries out in her pangs,
    when she is near her time,
so were we because of thee, O Lord;
18     we were with child, we writhed,
    we have as it were brought forth wind.
We have wrought no deliverance in the earth,
    and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:16 Heb uncertain

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