Isaiah 26:16-18

Complete Jewish Bible

¹⁶ Adonai, when they were troubled,
they sought you.
When you chastened them,
they poured out a silent prayer.
¹⁷ As a pregnant woman about to give birth
cries out and writhes in her labor pains,
so we have been at your presence, Adonai —
¹⁸ we have been pregnant and been in pain.
But we, as it were, have given birth to wind;
we have not brought salvation to the land,
and those inhabiting the world have not come to life.