Isaiah 26:15-17

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶ O Lord, in distress they sought thee,
    they poured out a prayer^[a]
    when thy chastening was upon them.
¹⁷ Like a woman with child,
    who writhes and cries out in her pangs,
    when she is near her time,
so were we because of thee, O Lord;