Isaiah 43:26
But do thou remember, and let us plead together: do thou first confess thy transgressions, that thou mayest be justified.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
In Context
27Your fathers first, and your princes have transgressed against me.
Cross References
Job 16:21Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, 1 Even as the son of man with his neighbor! 1
Job 40:4Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: 1 Hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: 1 And what shall I answer to these arguments? 1 I will lay my hand upon my mouth. 1
Job 40:8Do not set aside my judgment: 1 And dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous? 1
Isaiah 1:18And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.
Isaiah 43:9All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them: who will declare these things? or who will declare to you things from the beginning? let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.
Jeremiah 2:21Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how art thou a strange vine turned to bitterness!
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 →