Isa 42:14: Now I will cry out like a woman in travail; I will gasp and pant. Abusio. One of the harsher tropes is the abusio, which is an implied metaphor. This type of metaphor behaves somewhat extravagantly, in that a word is taken from one usage and put to another. Abusios can be made from either nouns or verbs. This abusio occurs in both Amos and Joel: Amos 1:2: Yahweh roars from Zion. Joel 3:16: Yahweh roars from Zion. In Hosea are these abusios: Hos 8:7: They sow the wind, and they shall
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