Isaiah 66:7-9 ▼

7 Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

8 Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her sons.

9 “Will I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it? ” says the LORD; “or will I who deliver, close the womb? ” says your God.