Isaiah 43:28

Isaiah 43:28 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
• New International Version (NIV)So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; I will give Jacob to the curse, And Israel to reproaches.

Context of Isaiah 43:28

26Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated. 27Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me. So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

Isaiah 43:28 word by word

וַאֲחַלֵּ֖ל שָׂ֣רֵי קֹ֑דֶשׁ וְאֶתְּנָ֤ה לַחֵ֙רֶם֙ יַעֲקֹ֔ב וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְגִדּוּפִֽים׃ סRead the interlinear

• So I will disgraceחָלַלchâlal · to profane/begin: profaneH2490
• the princesשַׂרώar · rulerH8269
• of your sanctuaryקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• and I will devoteנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• Jacobיַעֲקֹבya‛ăqôb · JacobH3290
• to destructionחֵ֫רֶםchêrem cherem · devoted thingH2764
• and Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• to reproachגִּדּוּפִיםgiddûph giddûph giddûphâh giddûphâh · revilingH1421

Cross-references for Isaiah 43:28

• Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
• 2 Samuel 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
• Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
• Lamentations 2:2Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
• Lamentations 4:20The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
• Psalms 82:6I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’
• Isaiah 42:24Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
• Isaiah 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
• Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
• Deuteronomy 29:21and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
• Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
• Jeremiah 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
• Daniel 9:14Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
• Zechariah 8:13As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
• Luke 21:21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

Commentaries on Isaiah 43:28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary "Thy princes have profaned my sanctuary" - Instead of שרי ואחלל vaachallel sarey, read שריך ויחללו vayechalelu sareycha . So the Syriac and Septuagint, ̔ ̔ , "the rulers have defiled my holy things." קדשי kodshi, Houbigant. ̔ , "thy rulers, "MSS. Pachom. and 1. D. 2 and Marchal. To reproaches "To reproach" - לגדופה ligeduphah, in the singular number; so an ancient MS. and the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28Therefore I have profaned - The princes of the sanctuary, that is, the priests, were by their office regarded as sacred, or set apart to the service of God. To depose them from that office, to subject them to punishment, and to send them into captivity, was, therefore, regarded as profaning them. They were stripped of their office, and robes, and honors, and reduced to the same condition, and compelled to meet with the same treatment, as the common…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22-28Verses 22-28 Those who neglect to call upon God, are weary of him. The Master tired not the servants with his commands, but they tired him with disobedience. What were the riches of God's mercy toward them? I, even I, am he who yet blotteth out thy transgressions. This encourages us to repent, because there is forgiveness with God, and shows the freeness of Divine mercy. When God forgives, he forgets. It is not for any thing in us, but for his mercies'…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. profaned the princes--(Psa 89:39; La 2:2, 6, 7). I have esteemed, or treated, them as persons not sacred. I have left them to suffer the same treatment as the common people, stripped of their holy office and in captivity. princes of the sanctuary--"governors of" it (1Ch 24:5); directing its holy services; priests. curse--Hebrew, cherim, a "solemn anathema," or "excommunication." reproaches--(Psa 123:3, 4).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 43

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings