26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, and bringeth [a]out their armies by number, and calleth them all by names: by the greatness of his power and mighty strength nothing faileth.

27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, [b]My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over of my God?

28 Knowest thou not? or hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord hath created the [c]ends of the earth? he neither fainteth, nor is weary: there is no searching of his [d]understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:26 Who hath set in order the infinite number of the stars.
  2. Isaiah 40:27 He rebuketh the Jews, because they did not rest on the providence of God, but thought that he had forsaken them in their troubles.
  3. Isaiah 40:28 And therefore all power is in his hand to deliver when his time cometh.
  4. Isaiah 40:28 Showing that men must patiently abide, and not curiously seek out the cause of God’s delay in our afflictions.

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