Isaiah 8:17

8:17 I will wait patiently for the Lord,

who has rejected the family of Jacob; ¹ 

I will wait for him.

Isaiah 57:17

57:17 I was angry because of their sinful greed;

I attacked them and angrily rejected them, ² 

yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. ³ 

Psalms 44:24

44:24 Why do you look the other way, ⁴ 

and ignore ⁵  the way we are oppressed and mistreated? ⁶ 

Psalms 77:19

77:19 You walked through the sea; ⁷ 

you passed through the surging waters, ⁸ 

but left no footprints. ⁹ 

John 13:7

13:7 Jesus replied, ¹⁰  “You do not understand ¹¹  what I am doing now, but you will understand ¹²  after these things.”

Romans 11:33-34

11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord,

or who has been his counselor? ¹³ 

[8:17]  ¹ tn Heb “who hides his face from the house of Jacob.”

[57:17]  ² tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנַיִם (panayim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”

[57:17]  ³ tn Heb “and he walked [as an] apostate in the way of his heart.”

[44:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “Why do you hide your face?” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

[44:24]  ⁵ tn Or “forget.”

[44:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”

[77:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the sea [was] your way.”

[77:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “and your paths [were] in the mighty waters.”

[77:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “and your footprints were not known.”

[13:7]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “answered and said to him.”

[13:7]  ¹¹ tn Grk “You do not know.”

[13:7]  ¹² tn Grk “you will know.”

[11:34]  ¹³ sn A quotation from Isa 40:13.