Isaiah 26:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.

¹⁷ As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy presence, O Lord.

¹⁸ We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.