Isaiah 43:26
24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
- KJV
- Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
- WEB
- Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
- ASV
- Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth [thy cause], that thou mayest be justified.
- DARBY
- Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse thine own [cause], that thou mayest be justified.
- BLB
- Remind Me, let us argue together; give an account [for] yourself, that you may be vindicated!
- ÅB
- Minn meg[^6], la oss gå i rette med hverandre! Fortell du, så du kan få rett!
- OTB
- Gå gjennom fortiden med meg, la oss diskutere saken sammen; legg frem din sak, så du kan bli bevist rett.
- B1930
- Minn mig, la oss gå i rette med hverandre! Fortell du, så du kan få rett! / < om det du har gjort for mig.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Read in contextIsaiah 43:9
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Read in contextRomans 8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
Read in contextPsalms 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:21–35
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
Read in contextIsaiah 41:1
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
Read in contextJob 40:7–8
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Read in contextRomans 10:3
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
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