Isaiah 40:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

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  • Job 27:2 : 2 As God lives, who has taken away my justice, and the Almighty, who has troubled my soul;
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing 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, who cry day and night to him, though he bears long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?
  • Isa 49:14 : 14 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.

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