Isaiah 42:14

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

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  • Job 32:18 : 18 For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me.
  • Job 32:20 : 20 Let me speak so that I may find relief; let me open my lips and answer.
  • Ps 50:2 : 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
  • Ps 83:1-2 : 1 A song, a psalm of Asaph. 2 O God, do not remain silent; do not be still or quiet, O Mighty One.
  • Eccl 8:11-12 : 11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do evil. 12 Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and lives a long time, I know that it will be well with those who fear God, who honor Him.
  • Jer 15:6 : 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 tired of relenting.'
  • Jer 44:22 : 22 Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay in helping them?
  • 2 Pet 3:9-9 : 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wanting any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
  • 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 And consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him.

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