Holy Scripture
Isaiah 26:17
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 17,18.) Just as she who conceives, when she approaches childbirth, cries out in her pain: so have we become because of your presence, Lord. We have conceived and, as it were, given birth, and brought forth the spirit. LXX: And as a woman in labor draws near to childbirth, in her pain she cries out: so have we b…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17And as a woman in travail draws nigh to be delivered, and cries out in her pain; so have we been to thy beloved.
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In context
15bring more evils on the glorious ones of the earth.
16Lord, in affliction I remembered thee; thy chastening was to us with small affliction.
— Isaiah 26:17 —
18We have conceived, O Lord, because of thy fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of thy salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth: we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.
19The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for the dew from thee is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.