Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
27. Why wilt thou say? The Prophet now expostulates either with the Jews, because they were almost overcome by despair, and did not look to the promises of God, by which they ought, to have supported their minds; or he makes provision for posterity, that they may not sink under any distresses however long continued.
These captives shame themselves by their own words. They bear the names Jacob and Israel from one who found God faithful in all straits, yet now they speak as if the Lord ignores their case. It is bad to harbor such thoughts in the mind; it is worse to speak them aloud and make them doctrine.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 40:27-31
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard?.... From the history of the church in all ages; from the experience of all good men; from their own knowledge and observation; from the Scriptures, and the prophets, the interpreters of them; both that what is before suggested is wrong, and that what follows is true, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends...