Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Your first forefather sinned,
And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Your first father sinned,
and your mediators have rebelled against Me.

International Standard Version

Your first ancestor sinned, and your mediators rebelled against me.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Your first father [Jacob] sinned,
And your spokesmen [the priests and the prophets—your mediators] have transgressed against Me.

Bible in Basic English

Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

Darby Translation

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy mediators have rebelled against me.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy first father slimed, thy interpreter transgressed against me.

King James 2000

Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your first ancestor sinned, and your {representatives} transgressed against me.

Modern King James verseion

Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have sinned against Me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy first father offended sore, and thy rulers have sinned against me.

NET Bible

The father of your nation sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me.

New Heart English Bible

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy chief father, hath sinned, And thine interpreters, have transgressed against me;

Webster

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

World English Bible

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ראשׁן ראשׁון 
Ri'shown 
Usage: 182

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Despite The People Of Israel's Past Sin, The Lord Will Forgive Them

26 Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right. 27 “Your first forefather sinned,
And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.
28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Isaiah 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

Ezekiel 16:3

and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Numbers 32:14

And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!

Psalm 78:8

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 106:6-7

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.

Isaiah 3:12

My people--infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

Isaiah 9:15

the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

Isaiah 56:10-12

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor 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."

Jeremiah 23:11-15

"Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the LORD.

Lamentations 4:13-14

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

Ezekiel 22:25-28

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

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Micah 3:11

Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us."

Zechariah 1:4-6

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.

Malachi 2:4-8

So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:7

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?'

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."

Matthew 27:1

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

Matthew 27:41

So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,

John 11:49-53

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

Acts 5:17-18

But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy

Acts 7:51

"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Romans 5:12

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

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