Isaiah 42:14

Catholic Public Domain Version

I have always been quiet; I have been silent; I have been patient. I will speak like a woman giving birth. I will destroy and consume, all at once.

Cross References

Job 32:18

For I am full of words, and the feeling in my gut inspires me.

Job 32:20

I should speak, but I will also breathe a little; I will open my lips, and I will answer.

Psalm 50:2

when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.

Psalm 50:21

Then you will accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations, and holocausts. Then they will lay calves upon your altar.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore, the Lord waits, so that he may take pity on you. And therefore, he will be exalted for sparing you. For the Lord is the God of judgment. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 57:11

For whose sake have you been anxiously afraid, so that you would lie and not be mindful of me, nor consider me in your heart? For I am silent, and I am like someone who does not see, and so you have forgotten me.

Isaiah 64:12

Should you restrain yourself, O Lord, concerning these things? Should you remain silent, and afflict us vehemently?

Isaiah 65:6

Behold, it has been written in my sight; I will not be silent. Instead, I will render retribution into their sinews.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have abandoned me, says the Lord. You have gone backwards. And so, I will extend my hand over you, and I will destroy you. I have labored to plead with you.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice, like that of a woman giving birth, during the difficulties of labor. It is the voice of the daughter of Zion, dying, extending her hands: 'Woe to me! For my soul is failing because of those who have been slain!' "

Jeremiah 44:22

And the Lord could no longer bear this, because of the evil of your intentions, and because of the abominations that you have done. And so, your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, and it is without an inhabitant, even to this day.

Luke 18:7

So then, will not God grant the vindication of his elect, who cry out to him day and night? Or will he continue to endure them?

2 Peter 3:15

And let the longsuffering of our Lord be considered salvation, as also our most beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,