Isaiah 40:27 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

BSB

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ASV

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God?

KJV

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Why sayest thou? - This verse is designed to reprove the people for their want of confidence in God. The idea is, ‘If God is so great; if be arranges the hosts of heaven with such unerring skill, causing all the stars to observe their proper place and their exact times, the interests of his people are safe in his hands.’ Piety may always find security in the assurance that He who preserves the unbroken order of the heavens will not fail to keep and save his people.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Is hid - He takes no notice of my prayers and tears, and sufferings, but suffers mine enemies to abuse me at their pleasure. This complaint is uttered in the name of the people, being prophetically supposed to be in captivity. God has neglected to plead my cause, and to give judgment for me against mine enemies.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לָ֤מָּה	La.mah	<to> why?	H4100 →
תֹאמַר֙	to.Mar	do you say	H559 →
יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב	ya.'a.Ko	O Jacob	H3290 →
וּתְדַבֵּ֖ר	u.te.da.Ber	so you may declare?	H1696 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	O Israel	H3478 →
נִסְתְּרָ֤ה	nis.te.Rah	it is hidden	H5641 →
דַרְכִּי֙	dar.Ki	way my	H1870 →
מֵֽיְהוָ֔ה	me.Yah.weh	from Yahweh	H3068 →
וּמֵאֱלֹהַ֖י	u.me.'e.lo.Hai	and from God my	H430 →
מִשְׁפָּטִ֥י	mish.pa.Ti	justice my	H4941 →
יַעֲבֽוֹר׃	ya.'a.Vor	it passes away	H5674 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 49:4
But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
leads to
- Isaiah 35:4
  Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
- Galatians 4:11
  I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
- Matthew 17:17
  “O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
- Ezekiel 3:19
  But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
- Isaiah 65:23
  They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
Through
Job 27:2
“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
leads to
- Job 34:5
  For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
- 2 Kings 4:27
  When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul…
Through
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
leads to
- Romans 11:1–5
  I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

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