Isaiah 43:27 “Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.”

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy mediators have rebelled against me.

Young's Literal Translation

Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“first father”

Ezekiel 16:3 Jeremiah 3:25 Zechariah 1:4–6 Malachi 3:7 Acts 7:51 Romans 5:12

Ezekiel 16:3 · BSB

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Jeremiah 3:25 · BSB

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

Zechariah 1:4–6 · BSB

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

Malachi 3:7 · BSB

Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

Acts 7:51 · BSB

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Romans 5:12 · BSB

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

“and thy”

Isaiah 28:7 Jeremiah 5:31 Ezekiel 22:25–28 Isaiah 3:12 Isaiah 56:10–12 Jeremiah 23:11–15

Isaiah 28:7 · BSB

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their jud…

Jeremiah 5:31 · BSB

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

Ezekiel 22:25–28 · BSB

The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.

Isaiah 3:12 · BSB

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

Isaiah 56:10–12 · BSB

Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 23:11–15 · BSB

“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.

Also

Isaiah 9:15

Isaiah 9:15 · BSB

The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.

28So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

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