The Meaning of Isaiah 40:27 Explained

Isaiah 40:27

KJV: 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?

YLT: Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? 'My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'

Darby: Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away from my God?

ASV: 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?

Discover Isaiah 40:27

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Isaiah 40:27?

MEANING: What does Isaiah 40:27 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Isaiah 40:27 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Isaiah 40:27?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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? 

What does Isaiah 40:27 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The Judahites kept saying: "How can God do this to us? He has forgotten us and no longer cares about us." They questioned God"s nature (He could not see them) and His dealings with them (He would not defend them).
Perhaps the double names "Jacob" and "Israel" are more than poetic synonyms. Isaiah may have been implying that the Judahites, God"s covenant people, were in a position as desperate in their own eyes as was Jacob, when he came to the end of himself, and God changed his name ( Genesis 32:22-32). [1] This happened, they would remember, after his exile in Mesopotamia.
God is not too great to care. He is too great not to care (cf. Genesis 18:25).

Context Summary

Isaiah 40:18-31 - The Everlasting God The Giver Of Strength
Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they appear as a vast flock following the shepherd, who calls each by its name. Not one falls out of its place, or is lacking. Will Jehovah do so much for stars and nought for men? Will He not have a name for each? Will He not guard and guide each? If He has sustained the orbs of light in their mighty rounds, will He fail the poor soul that clings to His feet?
They that wait on God change their strength. In their earliest days they rely on the energy and vigor of youth, on their blameless, unstained character, in the consciousness of their glorious manhood; but as years pass, they come to count all these as refuse in comparison with Jesus Christ the Lord, Philippians 3:8. Notice the order in Isaiah 40:31! At first sight we should have expected that it would advance from walking to running, and so to flying. But that order is reversed. It is more difficult to walk than to mount! Every cyclist will tell you that the hardest task is to keep your cycle at walking pace. [source]

Chapter Summary: Isaiah 40

1  The promulgation of the Gospel
3  The preaching of John Baptist foretold
9  The preaching of the apostles foretold
12  The prophet, by the omnipotence of God
18  And his incomparableness
26  Comforts the people

What do the individual words in Isaiah 40:27 mean?

Why do you say Jacob and speak Israel is hidden My way from Yahweh and by my God my just claim is passed over
לָ֤מָּה תֹאמַר֙ יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב וּתְדַבֵּ֖ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל נִסְתְּרָ֤ה דַרְכִּי֙ מֵֽיְהוָ֔ה וּמֵאֱלֹהַ֖י מִשְׁפָּטִ֥י יַעֲבֽוֹר

לָ֤מָּה  Why 
Parse: Interrogative
Root: לָמָּה 
Sense: what, how, of what kind.
תֹאמַר֙  do  you  say 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב  Jacob 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יַעֲקֹב  
Sense: son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 2 patriarchs of the tribes of Israel.
וּתְדַבֵּ֖ר  and  speak 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Conjunctive imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל  Israel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל  
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.
נִסְתְּרָ֤ה  is  hidden 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: סָתַר  
Sense: to hide, conceal.
דַרְכִּי֙  My  way 
Parse: Noun, common singular construct, first person common singular
Root: דֶּרֶךְ  
Sense: way, road, distance, journey, manner.
מֵֽיְהוָ֔ה  from  Yahweh 
Parse: Preposition-m, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
וּמֵאֱלֹהַ֖י  and  by  my  God 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: אֱלֹהִים  
Sense: (plural).
מִשְׁפָּטִ֥י  my  just  claim 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: מִשְׁפָּט  
Sense: judgment, justice, ordinance.
יַעֲבֽוֹר  is  passed  over 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָבַר 
Sense: to pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress.

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