Isaiah 42:14
World English Bible
“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.
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Isaiah 42:14 in other translations
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.
Isaiah 42:14 in context
- 12Let them give glory to Yahweh,
and declare his praise in the islands. - 13Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.
He will stir up zeal like a man of war.
He will raise a war cry.
Yes, he will shout aloud.
He will triumph over his enemies. - 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. - 15I will destroy mountains and hills,
and dry up all their herbs.
I will make the rivers islands,
and will dry up the pools. - 16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know.
I will lead them in paths that they don’t know.
I will make darkness light before them,
and crooked places straight.
I will do these things,
and I will not forsake them.