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Isaiah 26:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 18 We became pregnant, we had labor pains,
  But it is as if we had given birth to wind.
  
  We have not brought salvation to the land,
  And no one is born to inhabit the land.

Isaiah 26:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 18 We became pregnant, we had labor pains,
  But it is as if we had given birth to wind.
  
  We have not brought salvation to the land,
  And no one is born to inhabit the land.

Isaiah 26:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 18 We have become pregnant, we have had labor pains;+ as it were, we have given birth to wind.* No real salvation do we accomplish as regards the land,+ and no inhabitants for the productive land proceed to fall [in birth].+

Isaiah 26:18

The Bible in Living English
- 18 * we have been pregnant, we have been taken with pangs, have, as it were, given birth to air; salvations of the earth we have not been achieving, and inhabitants of the world have not been dropping.

Isaiah 26:18

American Standard Version
- 18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Isaiah 26:18

The Emphasized Bible
- 18 We were with child—We were in pain, As it were we brought forth wind,—Salvation we could not accomplish for the earth, Neither were born the inhabitants of the world.