Isaiah 42:14

WEB

¹⁴“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

KJV

¹⁴I 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.

BSB

¹⁴“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

FBV

¹⁴“I didn't say anything for a long time, I kept quiet and restrained myself. But now like a woman giving birth, I will moan and gasp and pant.

Extra References

Jeremiah 44:22

²²Thus the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.

Psalms 83:1-2

¹God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. ²For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

Luke 18:7

⁷Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

2 Peter 3:9-10

⁹The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. ¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat; and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

2 Peter 3:15

¹⁵Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

Jeremiah 15:6

⁶You have rejected me,” says the LORD. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

Ecclesiastes 8:11-12

¹¹Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. ¹²Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.