Isaiah 42:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 travail, I will gasp and pant.

Cross References

Job 32:18

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

Job 32:20

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

Psalm 50:2

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

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; 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 give me a thought? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and so you do not fear me?

Isaiah 64:12

Wilt thou restrain thyself at these things, O Lord? Wilt thou keep silent, and afflict us sorely?

Isaiah 65:6

Behold, it is written before me: “I will not keep silent, but I will repay, yea, I will repay into their bosom

Jeremiah 15:6

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

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in travail, anguish as of one bringing forth 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.”

Jeremiah 44:22

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

Luke 18:7

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

2 Peter 3:15

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