Isaiah 26:18
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.

Young's Literal Translation
We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
We were pregnant,
הָרִ֣ינוּ (hā·rî·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 2030: Pregnant

we writhed in pain,
חַ֔לְנוּ (ḥal·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 2342: To twist, whirl, to dance, to writhe in pain, fear, to wait, to pervert

we gave birth to
יָלַ֣דְנוּ (yā·laḏ·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

wind.
ר֑וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

We have brought
נַ֣עֲשֶׂה (na·‘ă·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

no
בַּל־ (bal-)
Adverb
Strong's 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest

salvation
יְשׁוּעֹת֙ (yə·šū·‘ōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 3444: Something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity

to the earth,
אֶ֔רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

nor
וּבַֽל־ (ū·ḇal-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest

brought
יִפְּל֖וּ (yip·pə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

any life
יֹשְׁבֵ֥י (yō·šə·ḇê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

into the world.
תֵבֵֽל׃ (ṯê·ḇêl)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8398: The earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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