Isaiah 40:27
Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 27:2 : 2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
- Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.
- Luke 18:7-8 : 7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
- Isa 49:14 : 14 But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.
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3 and he said to me, You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.
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2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
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15 Most assuredly you are a God who hid yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.'
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7 They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."
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14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
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24 Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
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9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
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7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
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22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
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26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
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24 Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?
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28 Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, 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? Didn't Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient to his law.
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15 Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
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1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
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25 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal?
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11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
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8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
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13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
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17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
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31 Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?
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19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
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1 > My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
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17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
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11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
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29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. 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 has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
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3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
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22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
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14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
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11 Of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven't I held my peace even of long time, and you don't fear me?
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2 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
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3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?
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8 You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
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7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? Are these his doings? Don't my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?"
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3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
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12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
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19 Your way was through the sea; Your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
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5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
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13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
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20 But, Yahweh of Hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
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1 > How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
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2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't 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 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;
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13 and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes 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, Whom God has hedged in?