Isaiah 42:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

Cross References

Job 32:18

For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

Job 32:20

Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.

Psalm 50:2

From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.

Psalm 50:21

These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

Isaiah 30:18

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

Isaiah 57:11

And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?

Isaiah 64:12

In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

Isaiah 65:6

See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,

Jeremiah 15:6

You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.

Jeremiah 4:31

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

Jeremiah 44:22

And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

Luke 18:7

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

2 Peter 3:15

And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;