Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand;

I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Neither hast thou delivered

Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

General references

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

The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: