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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.(A)
19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[a] shall rise.
    Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy![b]
For your dew is a radiant dew,
    and the earth will give birth to those long dead.[c](B)

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
    until the wrath is past.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 26.19 Cn Compare Syr Tg: Heb my corpse
  2. 26.19 Q ms Compare Gk Syr: MT dust, awake and shout for joy!
  3. 26.19 Heb to the shades