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Israel’s Unfaithfulness

Isaiah 43:28

In 11 translations

BSB
So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons to the LORD, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.
KJV
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.princes…: or, holy princes
WEB
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
ASV
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.
LSV
And I defile princes of the sanctuary, || And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!
YLT
And I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!
DBY
And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches.
DRC
And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to reproach.
GNV
Therefore I haue prophaned the rulers of the Sanctuarie, and haue made Iaakob a curse, and Israel a reproche.
JPS
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and I have given Jacob to condemnation, and Israel to reviling.
LXXE
And the princes have defiled my sanctuaries: so I gave Jacob to enemies to destroy, and Israel to reproach.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַאֲחַלֵּ֖ל שָׂ֣רֵי קֹ֑דֶשׁ וְאֶתְּנָ֤ה לַחֵ֨רֶם֙ יַעֲקֹ֔ב וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְגִדּוּפִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐμίαναν οἱ ἄρχοντες τὰ ἅγιά μου· καὶ ἔδωκα ἀπωλέσαι Ἰακὼβ, καὶ Ἰσραὴλ εἰς ὀνειδισμόν.

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👤 Jacob (Israel)◆ Prophecies of Isaiah

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • 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 28:15–20If, 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: You will be cursed in the city and…
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
  • Lamentations 2:6–7He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.…
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Isaiah 42:24–25Who 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. So He poured out on them His…
  • Psalms 82:6–7I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’ But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”
  • 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.”
  • Ezekiel 5:15So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  • Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

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