Isaiah 43:27

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Isaiah 43:27

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

First father

And thy

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First father

Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel.

And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

We have sinned

like our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did not listen or give heed to Me,” declares the Lord.

“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

“You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

And thy

O My people! Their oppressors are children,
And women rule over them.
O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray
And confuse the direction of your paths.

And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink:

The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,

They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink;
They reel while having visions,
They totter when rendering judgment.

His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,

Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?

“For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The blood of the righteous;

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,
Her priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”

Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may continue with Levi,” says the Lord of hosts.

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death;

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.