Holy Scripture

Isaiah 40:26

A church father on this verse
“In many places in scripture is the phrase "Lift up your eyes" set forth by the divine word, urging us to elevate and raise our thoughts and our vision, which is cast down and stooped, unable to fully look up and to rise on high; just as in Isaiah: "Lift up your eyes on high and see: who has created these things?" And…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 13:274

Source: Septuagint

Original

26Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.

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In context

24For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

25Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.

— Isaiah 40:26 —

27For say not thou, O Jacob, and why hast thou spoken, Israel, saying, My way is hidden from God, and my God has taken away my judgment, and has departed?

28And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

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