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?
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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.
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? …
But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
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 th…
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