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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Isaiah 40:28

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the (d) ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his (e) understanding.

(d) And therefore all power is in his hand to deliver when his time comes.

(e) Showing that men must patiently abide, and not curiously seek out the cause of God's delay in our affliction.

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