Isaiah 40:27 (DBY)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who hath created these things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth.

Isaiah 40:27 Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away from my God?

Isaiah 40:28 Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.

Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sayest", "thou", "jacob", "speakest", "israel", "jehovah", "right", and "passed". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sayest" and "thou", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 26's "Lift up your eyes on high and..." into verse 28's "Dost thou not know hast thou not...", so "sayest" and "thou" belong inside that flow. In Isaiah context, the local focus is the Holy One of Israel, judgment and restoration, the servant of the LORD, and Zion's hope.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sayest" and "thou" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.