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26 Look up to the skies.
    Who created all those stars?
Who created all those “armies” in the sky?
    Who knows every star by name?
He is very strong and powerful,
    so not one of these stars is lost.

27 People of Jacob, this is true.
    Israel, you should believe it.
So why do you say, “The Lord cannot see the way I live;
    he will not find me and punish me”[a]?

28 Surely you know the truth.
    Surely you have heard.
The Lord is the God who lives forever!
    He created all the faraway places on earth.
He does not get tired and weary.
    You cannot learn all he knows.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:27 The Lord … punish me Or “My way is hidden from the Lord; he ignores my case.”

26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:(A)
    Who created(B) all these?
He who brings out the starry host(C) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,(D)
    not one of them is missing.(E)

27 Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?(F)
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?(G)
The Lord is the everlasting(H) God,
    the Creator(I) of the ends of the earth.(J)
He will not grow tired or weary,(K)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.(L)

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