42:14 “I have been inactive 1 for a long time;
I kept quiet and held back.
Like a woman in labor I groan;
I pant and gasp. 2
64:12 In light of all this, 3 how can you still hold back, Lord?
How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?
65:6 Look, I have decreed: 4
I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;
I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, 5
62:1 “For the sake of Zion I will not be silent;
for the sake of Jerusalem 6 I will not be quiet,
until her vindication shines brightly 7
and her deliverance burns like a torch.”
62:6 I 8 post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
they should keep praying all day and all night. 9
You who pray to 10 the Lord, don’t be silent!
57:11 Whom are you worried about?
Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully
and not remember me
or think about me? 11
Because I have been silent for so long, 12
you are not afraid of me. 13
1 tn Heb “silent” (so NASB, NIV, TEV, NLT); CEV “have held my temper.”
2 sn The imagery depicts the Lord as a warrior who is eager to fight and can no longer hold himself back from the attack.
3 tn Heb “because of these”; KJV, ASV “for these things.”
5 tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”
6 tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”
7 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
8 tn Heb “goes forth like brightness.”
9 sn The speaker here is probably the prophet.
10 tn Heb “all day and all night continually they do not keep silent.” The following lines suggest that they pray for the Lord’s intervention and restoration of the city.
11 tn Or “invoke”; NIV “call on”; NASB, NRSV “remind.”
11 tn Heb “you do not place [it] on your heart.”
12 tn Heb “Is it not [because] I have been silent, and from long ago?”
13 sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences.