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Israel’s Unfaithfulness

Isaiah 43:27

In 11 translations

BSB
Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.
KJV
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.teachers: Heb. interpreters
WEB
Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
ASV
Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
LSV
Your first father sinned, || And your interpreters transgressed against Me,
YLT
Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,
DBY
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy mediators have rebelled against me.
DRC
Thy brat father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
GNV
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers haue transgressed against me.
JPS
Thy first father sinned, and thine intercessors have transgressed against Me.
LXXE
Your fathers first, and your princes have transgressed against me.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אָבִ֥יךָ הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן חָטָ֑א וּמְלִיצֶ֖יךָ פָּ֥שְׁעוּ בִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν πρῶτοι, καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες ὑμῶν ἠνόμησαν εἰς ἐμέ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
  • Isaiah 28:7These 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…
  • Ezekiel 16:3and 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.
  • Ezekiel 22:25–28The 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. Her priests do violence to My law…
  • Lamentations 4:13–14But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst. They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their…
  • Malachi 2:4–8Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts. “My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for…
  • Malachi 3:7Yet 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?’
  • Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  • Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
  • Matthew 27:1When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
  • John 11:49–53But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”…
  • Matthew 27:41In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,
  • 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 fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
  • Isaiah 56:10–12Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber. Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no…
  • Matthew 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
  • Zechariah 1:4–6Do 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.…

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