Isaiah 40:27 - Exposition

O Jacob … O Israel (For this pleonastic combination, so characteristic of Isaiah, see Isaiah 9:8 ; Isaiah 10:21 , Isaiah 10:22 ; Isaiah 14:1 ; Isaiah 27:6 ; Isaiah 29:23 , in the earlier chapters; and Isaiah 41:8 ; Isaiah 42:24 ; Isaiah 43:1 , Isaiah 43:22 , Isaiah 43:28 ; Isaiah 44:1 , Isaiah 44:5 , Isaiah 44:23 ; Isaiah 45:4 ; Isaiah 46:3 ; Isaiah 49:5 , Isaiah 49:6 , etc; in the later ones.) Why sayest thou … My way is hid? The prophet has gone back to the time when Israel is suffering all the calamities of the Captivity, instead of being on the point of emerging from it, as in Isaiah 40:9-11 , and he now hears the complaints of the exiles, who think that God has forsaken them—that he does not see their "way" of life, or regard their sufferings. My judgment . Delitzsch and Mr. Cheyne translate "my right ," and understand the "right" of Israel to be independent of its oppressors.