Isaiah 43:27
Thy chief father, hath sinned, And thine interpreters, have transgressed against me;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
In Context
26Put me in mind, Let us enter into judgment at once,—Recount, thou, that thou mayest be justified:
Cross References
Numbers 32:14Lo! therefore, ye have arisen in the room of your fathers, a brood of sinful men,—to heap up yet more upon the heat of the anger of Yahweh, towards Israel.
Psalms 106:6We have sinned—with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness;
Isaiah 9:15The elder and favourite, he, is the head,—And the prophet teaching falsehood, he, is the tail;
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen, are blind None of them, know, All of them, are dumb dogs, they cannot bark,—Dreaming, sleeping, loving to slumber.
Jeremiah 5:31The prophets, have prophesied, falsely, And the priests tread down by their means, And, my people, love it, so,—What then can ye do as to her latter end?
Jeremiah 8:9Ashamed are the wise, dismayed and captured! Lo! the word of Yahweh, have they rejected, And, what wisdom, have, they?
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 →