Isaiah 43:27

Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

In Context

26Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

28Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:14And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

Psalms 106:6We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

Isaiah 9:15The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

Jeremiah 5:31The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 8:9The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:23-28

Reproof to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. 23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine… Read the whole commentary →

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