9/6 (六)
以賽亞書 26：16-18
現代中文譯本（2019）
16 上主啊，你曾懲罰你的子民；
在痛苦中他們求告你。
17 上主啊，你使我們呼叫，
像臨盆的婦女陣痛，輾轉呻吟。
18 我們曾經歷輾轉陣痛，
卻沒有生產。
我們沒有為國家打過勝仗；
我們沒有造福世人。
ESV
16 O LORD, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
17 Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O LORD;
18 we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
《聖經串珠注釋》
神的百姓受神懲罰後，便向神祈求，因他們曾嘗試自救而不成功，如孕婦徒然疼痛，分娩失敗。
