Isaiah 66:9
ContextNET © | “Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the Lord. “Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God. 1 |
NIV © | Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?" says your God. |
NASB © | "Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?" says your God. |
NLT © | Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not deliver it?" asks the LORD. "No! I would never keep this nation from being born," says your God. |
MSG © | Do I open the womb and not deliver the baby? Do I, the One who delivers babies, shut the womb? |
BBE © | Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God. |
NRSV © | Shall I open the womb and not deliver? says the LORD; shall I, the one who delivers, shut the womb? says your God. |
NKJV © | Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?" says the LORD. "Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb ?" says your God. |
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NET © | “Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the Lord. “Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God. 1 |
NET © Notes |
1 sn The rhetorical questions expect the answer, “Of course not!” |