Isaiah 40:27
¶ 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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Referenced Verses
- Job 27:2 : 2 [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;
- Isa 49:4 : 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 : 7 ‹And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?› 8 ‹I tell 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, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
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14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
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