Isaiah 42:14

New International Version

“For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant.

Cross References

Job 32:18

For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me;

Job 32:20

I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and reply.

Psalm 50:2

From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.

Psalm 50:21

When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.

Isaiah 30:18

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 57:11

“Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have not been true to me, and have neither remembered me nor taken this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?

Isaiah 64:12

After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back? Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?

Isaiah 65:6

“See, it stands written before me: I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps—

Jeremiah 15:6

You have rejected me,” declares the Lord. “You keep on backsliding. So I will reach out and destroy you; I am tired of holding back.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, “Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.”

Jeremiah 44:22

When the Lord could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.

Luke 18:7

And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

2 Peter 3:15

Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.