Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand;

I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

Neither hast thou delivered

Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.

therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -'stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

General references

Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: