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Isaiah 43:26
26Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Let us review the situation together, and you can present your case to prove your innocence.
Context of Isaiah 43:26
24You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses. 25“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence. 27Your first father sinned; those I sent to teach you rebelled against me. 28So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction and Israel to 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 now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
- Genesis 32:12But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’ ”
- Job 16:21on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.
- Job 23:3If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!
- Job 40:4“I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.
- Psalms 141:2May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
- Jeremiah 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?
- Ezekiel 36:37“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,
- Romans 11:35“Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?”
- Isaiah 43:9All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Which of their gods foretold this and proclaimed to us the former things? Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
- Job 40:7“Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
- Luke 10:29But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
- Luke 16:15He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
- Luke 18:9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:
- Romans 8:33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
- Romans 10:3Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit 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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