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15 Lord, you have helped the nation you love.
    You made our nation grow
    and brought honor to yourself.[a]
16 Lord, people remember you
    when they are in trouble.
So because of your punishment,
    we called out to you.
17 Lord, because of you we were in pain,
    like a woman giving birth,
    who struggles and cries out when it is time.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:15 Or “You gathered together the nation you love, the nation you drove into faraway lands.”

15 You have enlarged the nation, Lord;
    you have enlarged the nation.(A)
You have gained glory for yourself;
    you have extended all the borders(B) of the land.

16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;(C)
    when you disciplined(D) them,
    they could barely whisper(E) a prayer.[a]
17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth(F)
    writhes and cries out in her pain,
    so were we in your presence, Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.