Isaiah 26:17-19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ Like a woman with child,
    who writhes and cries out in her pangs
    when she is near her time,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
¹⁸     we were with child, we writhed,
    but we gave birth only to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
    and no one is born to inhabit the world.
¹⁹ Your dead shall live, their corpses^[a] shall rise.
    O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For your dew is a radiant dew,
    and the earth will give birth to those long dead.^[b]