26:16 O Lord, in distress they looked for you;
they uttered incantations because of your discipline. 1
26:17 As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver
and strains and cries out because of her labor pains,
so were we because of you, O Lord.
26:18 We were pregnant, we strained,
we gave birth, as it were, to wind. 2
We cannot produce deliverance on the earth;
people to populate the world are not born. 3
26:19 4 Your dead will come back to life;
your corpses will rise up.
Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! 5
For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, 6
and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits. 7