Isaiah 26:16
“Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.”
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Cross-References
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”
“Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.”
“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.”
“I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.”
“O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.”