Isaiah 26:18

16 Lord, ^ain trouble they have visited You,
They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

17 As ^aa woman with child
Is in pain and cries out in her¹ pangs,
When she draws near the time of her delivery,
So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we have been in pain;
We have, as it were,¹ brought forth wind;
We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
Nor have ^athe inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 ^aYour dead shall live;
Together with¹ my dead body they shall arise.
^bAwake and sing, you who dwell in dust;
For your dew is like the dew of herbs,
And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment

20 Come, my people, ^aenter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, ^bfor a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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We have - brought forth wind - The learned Professor Michaelis explains this image in the following manner: " Rariorem morbum describi, empneumatosin, aut ventosam molam, dictum; quo quae laborant diu et sibi et peritis medicis gravidae videntur,tandemque post omnes verae graviditatis molestias et labored ventum ex utero emittunt: quem morbum passim describunt medici . "Syntagma Comment., vol. ii., p. 165. The empneumatosis, or windy inflation of the womb, is a disorder to which females are liable. Some have had this in such wise, for a long time together, that they have appeared to themselves, and even to very skillful medical men, to be pregnant; and after having endured much pain, and even the throes of apparent childbearing, they have been eased and restored to health by the emission of a great quantity of wind from the uterus. This disorder is well known to medical men. "The Syriac translator seems to have understood it in this manner: Enixi sumus, ut illae quae ventos pariunt . "We have brought forth as they who bring forth wind."

In the earth "In the land" - bearets ; so a MS., the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate.

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