Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 26:18

18 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.

We have had the Torment of a Woman in Childbearing, but not the Comfort of a Living Child, Ioh. 16. 21. for we have brought forth nothing but Wind, all our Labours and Hopes were vain and unsuccessful. The Prophet here represents their deplorable and desperate Condition, before God appeared so eminently to deliver them.

We found that we were utterly unable to deliver our selves.

Or, in the land, in our own Country, where yet we had far greater Advantages than we could have had elsewhere.

The Assyrians, or our other Enemies; for they are here opposed to God's People.