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Isaiah 26:16

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Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

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  1. Isaiah 26:14

    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.

  2. Isaiah 26:15

    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.

  3. Isaiah 26:17

    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.

  4. Isaiah 26:18

    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.

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