Isaiah 43:27
Thy brat father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
In Context
26Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou hast any thing to justify thyself.
28And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to reproach.
Cross References
Numbers 32:14And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.
Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
Isaiah 9:15The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.
Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 8:9The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in 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 →