Isaiah 42:14

English Standard Version 2016

For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.

Cross References

2 Peter 3:15

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

Luke 18:7

And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have rejected me, declares the Lord; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.

Psalm 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Job 32:20

I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.

Job 32:18

For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 57:11

Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?

Isaiah 64:12

Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

Isaiah 65:6

Behold, it is written before me: “I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their lap

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”