NET Bible
"O LORD, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline."
— Isaiah 26:16, NET Bible
“Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.”
“Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. ”
“Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.”
“Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.”
“Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.”
“Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.”
O LORD, our God, masters other than you have ruled us, but we praise your name alone.
The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.
You have made the nation larger, O LORD, you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, you have extended all the borders of the land.
O LORD, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.
As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O LORD.
We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.
Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.