Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 43:27
27Your first father sinned, and your mediators have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 43:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
- New International Version (NIV)Your first father sinned; those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your first father sinned, And your mediators have transgressed against Me.
Context of Isaiah 43:27
25“I am the one, I sweep away your transgressions for my own sake and remember your sins no more. 26Remind me. Let’s argue the case together. Recount the facts, so that you may be vindicated. Your 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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אָבִ֥יךָ הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן חָטָ֑א וּמְלִיצֶ֖יךָ פָּ֥שְׁעוּ בִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 43:27
- Numbers 32:14And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your ancestors’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.
- Psalms 78:8Then they would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
- Psalms 106:6Both we and our ancestors have sinned; we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.
- Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors, from the time of our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the Lord our God.”
- Ezekiel 16:3You are to say, ‘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 Hethite.
- Zechariah 1:4Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me — this is the Lord’s declaration.
- Malachi 3:7“Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Armies. Yet you ask, “How can we return?”
- Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also.
- Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.
- Isaiah 3:12Youths oppress my people, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders mislead you; they confuse the direction of your paths.
- Isaiah 28:7Even these stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: Priest and prophet stagger because of beer. They are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer. They are muddled in their visions. They stumble in their judgments.
- Isaiah 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them, they know nothing; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; they dream, lie down, and love to sleep.
- Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?
- Jeremiah 23:11because both prophet and priest are ungodly, even in my house I have found their evil. This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Lamentations 4:13Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous within her.
- Ezekiel 22:25The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.
Commentaries on Isaiah 43:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27Thy first father hath sinned - On this Kimchi speaks well: "How can ye say that ye have not sinned, seeing your first father, Adam, sinned; and man hath sin impressed on him through natural generation?"Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27Thy first father hath sinned - This is the argument on the side of God, to show that they were neither unjustly punished, nor punished with undue severity. The argument is, that their rulers and teachers had been guilty of crime, and that therefore it was right to bring all this vengeance upon the nation. Various interpretations have been given of the phrase thy first father.‘ A slight notice of them will lead to the correct exposition. 1. Many have…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
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27spokesmen: God held the kings of Israel and Judah especially responsible for leading the nation into sin (see 2 Kings 21).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. first father--collectively for "most ancient ancestors," as the parallelism ("teachers") proves [Maurer]. Or, thy chief religious ministers or priests [Gesenius]. Adam, the common father of all nations, can hardly be meant here, as it would have been irrelevant to mention his sin in an address to the Jews specially. Abraham is equally out of place here, as he is everywhere cited as an example of faithfulness, not of "sin." However, taking the passage…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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