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18 
We have been with child, we have twisted and struggled in labor;
We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,
Nor were inhabitants of the world [a]born.
19 
Your dead will live;
[b]Their dead bodies will rise.
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural],
And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.(A)

20 
Come, my people, enter your chambers
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide for a little while
Until the [Lord’s] [c]wrath is past.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:18 Lit fallen.
  2. Isaiah 26:19 So with some ancient versions; MT reads My dead body.
  3. Isaiah 26:20 Lit curse.

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