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13 O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but through you alone we acknowledge your name. 14 The dead won't live, and the departed spirits won't rise— to that end, you punished and destroyed them, then locked away all memory of them. 15 |But you have enlarged the nation, LORD; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained honor; you have extended all the borders of the land. 16 LORD, they came to you in distress; they poured out their secret prayer when your chastenings were afflicting them. 17 Just as a pregnant woman writhes and cries out during her labor when she is about to give birth, so were we because of you, LORD. 18 We were pregnant, writhing in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not won your victory on earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world been born.| 19 |But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Those who live in the dust will wake up and shout for joy! For your dew is like the dew of dawn, and the earth will give birth to the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by. 21 For see, the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins; the earth will reveal the blood that has been shed on it, and will no longer conceal its slain.| Isaiah 26:13-21, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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