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15 (A)You have increased the nation, O Yahweh;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have (B)extended all the borders of the land.
16 O Yahweh, they visited You (C)in distress;
They [a]could only whisper a prayer;
Your chastening was upon them.
17 (D)As the [b]woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,
Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:16 Lit sound forth a whisper
  2. Isaiah 26:17 Or pregnant woman