Isaiah 26:12–19

¹²O LORD, You will establish peace for us.

For all that we have accomplished,

You have done for us.

¹³O LORD our God, other lords besides You have ruled over us,

but Your name alone do we confess.

¹⁴The dead will not live;

the departed spirits will not rise.

Therefore You have punished and destroyed them;

You have wiped out all memory of them.

¹⁵You have enlarged the nation, O LORD;

You have enlarged the nation.

You have gained glory for Yourself;

You have extended all the borders of the land.

¹⁶O LORD, they sought You in their distress;

when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.

¹⁷As a woman with child about to give birth

writhes and cries out in pain,

so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

¹⁸We were with child; we writhed in pain;

but we gave birth to wind.

We have given no salvation to the earth,

nor brought any life into the world.

¹⁹Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.

Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!

For your dew is like the dew of the morning,

and the earth will bring forth her dead.