Isaiah 26:17-18

New American Standard Bible

^17 (A)As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her labor pains;
This is how we were before You, Lord.
¹⁸ We were pregnant, we writhed in labor,
We ^(B)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth,
Nor were ^(C)inhabitants of the world ^[a]born.