Isaiah 40:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Isaiah 40:27 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 49:4
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Luke 18:7-8
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? …
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27-31)

Here, I. The prophet reproves the people of God, who are now supposed to be captives in Babylon for their unbelief and distrust of God, and the dejections and despondencies of their spirit under their affliction (Isa. 40:27): “ Why sayest thou, O Jacob! to thyself and to those about thee, My way is hidden from the Lord? Why dost thou make hard and melancholy conclusions concerning thyself and thy…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

27. Since these things are so, thou hast no reason to think that thine interest (“way,” that is, condition, Psa 37:5; Jr 12:1) is disregarded by God. judgment is passed over from--rather, “My cause is neglected by my God; He passes by my case in my bondage and distress without noticing it.” my God--who especially might be expected to care for me.