Isaiah 42:14 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁴ “I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I groan, gasping and panting at once.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ [Thus says the Lord] I have for a long time held My peace, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now I will cry out like a woman in travail, I will gasp and pant together.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ I’ve kept still for a very long time. I’ve been silent and restrained myself. Like a woman in labor I will moan; I will pant, I will gasp.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ 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.

Isaiah 42:14 Tagairtí Cros

Job 32:18

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

Job 32:20

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

Psalm 50:2

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

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done— Should I keep silent? You thought I was just like you— but I reprove you, and set the case before your eyes.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore Adonai is longing to be gracious to you. Thus He will be exalted, so He may have mercy on you. For Adonai is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

Isaiah 57:11

“Whom was it you dreaded and feared, so that you lied. But you did not remember Me or take it to heart? Have I not kept silent a long time— yet you do not fear Me?

Isaiah 65:6

Behold, it is written before Me; I will not keep silence, but will repay, even repay into their laps,

Jeremiah 15:6

You have cast Me off” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “You keep going backward! So I stretch out My hand against you and will destroy you. I am weary with relenting.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry like one in labor, the anguish of one giving birth to her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands saying, “Oy , now to me! For my soul faints before murderers.”

Jeremiah 44:22

Then Adonai could no longer endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations that you committed! So your land has become a wasteland, a desolation and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Luke 18:7

Won’t God do justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He be slow to help them?

2 Peter 3:15

Bear in mind that the patience of our Lord means salvation—just as our dearly loved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom given to him.