Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 27:2 : 2 By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
- Isa 49:4 : 4 And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
- Luke 18:7-8 : 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it? 8 I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?
- Isa 49:14 : 14 But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.
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3 And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my glory will be seen;
4 And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
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2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
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1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
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15 Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!
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7 And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.
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14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
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24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
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9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
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7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
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9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
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22 But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
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24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
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28 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.
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15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
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1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
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25 But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
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11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.
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8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
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13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
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17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?
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31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
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22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
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23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?