The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
ISA 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her
delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in
thy sight, O LORD.
ISA 26:18 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.
ISA 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall
they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the
dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
ISA 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy
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