Isaiah 26:16
14 The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
15 You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.
O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
17 As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.
18 We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
- KJV
- LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- WEB
- LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
- ASV
- Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.
- DARBY
- Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out [their] whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- BLB
- O YHWH, in the distress they visited You; they poured out a whispering [with] Your discipline upon them.
- ÅB
- Herre! I nøden søkte de deg; de oppsendte stille bønner da din tukt kom over dem.
- OTB
- Herre, de søkte deg i sin nød; når du disiplinerte dem, kunne de bare hviske en bønn.
- B1930
- Herre! I nøden søkte de dig; de opsendte stille bønner da din tukt kom over dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 5:15
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Read in contextPsalms 50:15
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
Read in contextLamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
Read in contextPsalms 77:1–2
I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.
Read in contextPsalms 91:15
When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
Read in context2 Chronicles 6:37–38
and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
Read in contextHosea 7:14
They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
Read in contextIsaiah 37:3
to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
Read in context