Isaiah 40:27
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?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 27:2 : 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:
- Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.
- Luke 18:7-8 : 7 And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and [yet] he is longsuffering over them? 8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
- Isa 49:14 : 14 But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.
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3 and he said unto me, Thou art my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.
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2 For thou art the God of my strength; Why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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1 Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
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7 And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
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14 Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?
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24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
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7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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22 Yet thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
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26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
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24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
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28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
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24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law.
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15 Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
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1 Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
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25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
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11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
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8 Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?
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13 And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
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17 Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?
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31 O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?
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19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
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1 [For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David]. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?
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17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.
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11 He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.
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29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
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7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
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3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
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22 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.
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14 How much less when thou sayest thou beholdest him not, The cause is before him, and thou waitest for him!
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11 And of whom hast thou been afraid and in fear, that thou liest, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of long time, and thou fearest me not?
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2 Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their God?
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3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?
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8 O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
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3 Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
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19 Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.
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5 For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
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13 Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
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20 But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
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2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
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37 And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;
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13 and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
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23 [ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?