Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 43:26
26Remind me. Let’s argue the case together. Recount the facts, so that you may be vindicated.
Isaiah 43:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
- New International Version (NIV)Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.
Context of Isaiah 43:26
24You have not bought me aromatic cane with silver, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities. 25“I am the one, I sweep away your transgressions for my own sake and remember your sins no more. Remind me. Let’s argue the case together. Recount the facts, so that you may be vindicated. 27Your first father sinned, and your mediators have rebelled against me. 28So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn.
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הַזְכִּירֵ֕נִי נִשָּׁפְטָ֖ה יָ֑חַד סַפֵּ֥ר אַתָּ֖ה לְמַ֥עַן תִּצְדָּֽק׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 43:26
- Isaiah 1:18“Come, let’s settle this,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool.
- Genesis 32:12You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.’”
- Job 16:21I wish that someone might argue for a man with God just as anyone would for a friend.
- Job 23:3If only I knew how to find him, so that I could go to his throne.
- Job 40:4I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I place my hand over my mouth.
- Psalms 141:2May my prayer be set before you as incense, the raising of my hands as the evening offering.
- Jeremiah 2:21I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?
- Ezekiel 36:37“‘This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.
- Romans 11:35And who has ever given to God, that he should be repaid?
- Isaiah 43:9All the nations are gathered together, and the peoples are assembled. Who among them can declare this, and tell us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate themselves, so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”
- Job 40:7Get ready to answer me like a man; When I question you, you will inform me.
- Luke 10:29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
- Luke 16:15And he told them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.
- Luke 18:9He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:
- Romans 8:33Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies.
- Romans 10:3Since they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.
Commentaries on Isaiah 43:26
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26Put me in remembrance - That is, urge all the arguments in your own defense which you can urge. State everything in self-vindication which can be stated. The language here is taken from the practice of courts when a cause is on trial; and God urges them on their side, to urge all in self-vindication which they can urge. On his part, he alleged that the princes and rulers of the nation had sinned Isaiah 43:27; that the whole nation had transgressed Isaiah…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. 2626. Put me in remembrance--Remind Me of every plea which thou hast to urge before Me in thy defense. Image from a trial (Is 1:18; 41:1). Our strongest plea is to remind God of His own promises. So Jacob did at Mahanaim and Peniel (Ge 32:9, 12). God, then, instead of "pleading against us with His great power," "will put His strength" in us (Job 23:6); we thus become "the Lord's remembrancers" (Is 62:6, Margin). "Declare God's righteousness" vindicated in…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
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