^{16 Ref} Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer `when' thy chastening was upon them.

^{17 Ref} Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.

^{18 Ref} 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.