Isaiah 26:18

Easy To Read Version

In the same way, we have pain.\par We give birth, but only to wind.\par We don’t make new people\par for the world.\par We don’t bring salvation to the land.\par

Cross References

2 Kings 19:3

They said to Isaiah, “Hezekiah says, ‘This is a day of trouble, a day to show we are wrong. It is like the time for babies to be born, but there is no strength to give birth to them.

Psalm 17:14

Lord, use your power and remove\par bad people from the \{land of\} the living.\par

Isaiah 33:11

You people have done useless things. Those things are like hay and straw. They are worth nothing! Your spirit {\cf2\super [306]} will be like a fire and burn you.

Isaiah 37:3

These men said to Isaiah, “King Hezekiah has commanded that today will be a special day for sorrow and sadness. It will be a very sad day. It will be like a day when a child should be born, but is not strong enough to come from its mother’s body.

Isaiah 59:4

No person tells the truth about other people. People sue each other in court, and they depend on false arguments to win their cases. They tell lies about each other. They are full of trouble, and they give birth to evil.

Hosea 13:13

\{His punishment\} will be like the pain a woman feels giving birth.\par He will not be a wise son.\par The time will come for his birth,\par and he will not survive.\par

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you. But the world hates me. Why? Because I tell the people in the world that they do evil things.

1 John 5:19

These are the people who divide you. These people do only what their sinful selves want. They don’t have the Spirit. {\cf2\super [9]}

1 Samuel 11:13

But Saul said, “No! Don’t kill anyone today! The Lord saved Israel today!”

1 Samuel 14:45

But the soldiers said to Saul, “Jonathan led Israel to a great victory today. Must Jonathan die? Never! We swear (promise) by the living God that {no one will hurt Jonathan}—not one hair of Jonathan’s head will fall to the ground! God helped Jonathan fight against the Philistines today!” So the people saved Jonathan. He was not put to death.