Isaiah 43:26

Tell me what I have done that you do not like. Do you think that when you state your case, you will prove that you ◄are innocent/have done nothing wrong► [IRO]?

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

In Context

25I am the one who is able to forgive you for all your sins; I am the only one who can do that, with the result that I will never think about them again.

27No, what has happened is that the first ancestor of you Israelis sinned against me, and since then, all your leaders have rebelled against me.

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Cross References

Job 16:21I pray that the one who knows what I have done would come to plead with God for me like people plead for their friends.

Job 40:4“ Now I realize that I am completely worthless. So ◄how could I answer those questions?/I could not possibly answer those questions!► [RHQ] I will put my hand over my mouth and not say anything.

Job 40:8“Are you going to accuse me and say that I am unjust? Are you going to say that what I have done is wrong, in order that you can say that what you have done is right?

Isaiah 1:18Yahweh says, “You need to think about the results of what you do. Even though the guilt of your sins be as evident and as difficult to get rid of as [SIM] red stains on a white garment [DOU], I will get rid of them completely like someone who can make that stained garment become as white as snow or wool [DOU].

Isaiah 43:9Gather people of all nations together, ones from all people-groups, and ask them this: ‘Has any of their idols foretold the things that are happening now? And can any of them predict what will happen in the future?’ Then bring people who will testify and say ‘I heard them predict things, and what they predicted was what happened,’ but they will be lying.”

Jeremiah 2:21It is as though [MET] you were a grapevine that I planted when it was a cutting from a very good vine. So now it is disgusting that [RHQ] you have become like a rotten worthless vine.

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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