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Isaiah 42

Isa. 42:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have long time
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
holden my peace
chashah (Hebrew #2814)
to hush or keep quiet
KJV usage: hold peace, keep silence, be silent, (be) still.
Pronounce: khaw-shaw'
Origin: a primitive root
; I have been still
charash (Hebrew #2790)
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)
KJV usage: X altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Pronounce: khaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
, and refrained
'aphaq (Hebrew #662)
to contain, i.e. (reflex.) abstain
KJV usage: force (oneself), restrain.
Pronounce: aw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
myself: nowq will I cry
pa`ah (Hebrew #6463)
to scream
KJV usage: cry.
Pronounce: paw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
like a travailing woman
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
; I will destroy
shamem (Hebrew #8074)
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Pronounce: shaw-mame'
Origin: a primitive root
nasham (Hebrew #5395)
properly, to blow away, i.e. destroy
KJV usage: destroy.
Pronounce: naw-sham'
Origin: a primitive root
and ζdevour
sha'aph (Hebrew #7602)
to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten
KJV usage: desire (earnestly), devour, haste, pant, snuff up, swallow up.
Pronounce: shaw-af'
Origin: a primitive root
at once
yachad (Hebrew #3162)
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
KJV usage: alike, at all (once), both, likewise, only, (al-)together, withal.
Pronounce: yakh'-ad
Origin: from 3161
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Cross References

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long time.
Job 32:18,20• 18For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
20I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
(Job 32:18,20)
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Psa. 50:2• 2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. (Psa. 50:2)
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Psa. 83:1‑2• 1A Song; a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O *God:
2For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
(Psa. 83:1‑2)
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Eccl. 8:11‑12• 11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;
(Eccl. 8:11‑12)
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Jer. 15:6• 6Thou hast cast me off, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward; and I have stretched out my hand against thee, and will destroy thee: I am become weary of repenting. (Jer. 15:6)
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Jer. 44:22• 22And Jehovah could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations that ye had committed; and your land is become a waste, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as at this day. (Jer. 44:22)
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Luke 18:7• 7And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them? (Luke 18:7)
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2 Peter 3:9‑10,15• 9The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
15and account the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation; according as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him,
(2 Peter 3:9‑10,15)
devour.
Heb. swallow, or sup up.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Long time have I holden my peace; I have been still, I have restrained myself: I will cry like a woman that travaileth; I will blow and pantc at once.

JND Translation Notes

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Others, "devastate and swallow up," as Ps. 56.1.