Isaiah 40:26 (LSB)

Passage

Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His vigor and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 40:24 Scarcely have they been planted; Scarcely have they been sown; Scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble.

Isaiah 40:25 “To whom then will you liken Me That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One.

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His vigor and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, And the justice due me passes by my God”?

Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is unsearchable.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "created", "lift", "eyes", "high", "stars", "leads", "forth", and "host". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "created" and "lift", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 25's "To whom then will you liken Me..." into verse 27's "Why do you say O Jacob and...", so "created" and "lift" 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 "created" and "lift" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.