Like as a woman with child. — This, as in Matthew 24:8; John 16:21, comes as the most natural image of longing, painful expectation, followed by great joy.
Related Commentaries of Isaiah 26:17
Isaiah 26:17
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.