Isaiah 43:27

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

²⁶ Take Me to court; let us argue our case together.
State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
²⁷ Your first father sinned,
and your mediators have rebelled against Me.
²⁸ So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary,
and set Jacob apart for destruction
and Israel for abuse.

Sinned Against Me

Jacob

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule by their own authority.
My people love it like this.
But what will you do at the end of it?

Isaiah 28:7

These also stagger because of wine
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.

Ezekiel 16:3

You are to say: 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.

Numbers 32:14

And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your fathers’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel.

Psalm 78:8

Then they would not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not loyal
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 106:6-7

Both we and our fathers have sinned;
we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.

Isaiah 3:12

Youths oppress My people,
and women rule over them.
My people, your leaders mislead you;
they confuse the direction of your paths.

Isaiah 9:15

The head is the elder, the honored one;
the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.

Isaiah 56:10-12

Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them,
they know nothing;
all of them are mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they dream, lie down,
and love to sleep.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let 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 the time of our youth even to this day.
We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 23:11-15

because both prophet and priest are ungodly,
even in My house I have found their evil.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Lamentations 4:13-14

מ MemYet it happened because of the sins of her prophets
and the guilt of her priests,
who shed the blood of the righteous
within her.

Ezekiel 22:25-28

The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe,
her priests teach for payment,
and her prophets practice divination for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
“Isn’t the Lord among us?
No disaster will overtake us.”

Zechariah 1:4-6

Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Malachi 2:4-8

Then you will know that I sent you this decree so My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Malachi 3:7

“Since the days of your fathers, you have turned from My statutes; you 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?”

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 27:1

When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

Matthew 27:41

In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked Him and said,

John 11:49-53

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

Acts 5:17-18

Then the high priest took action. He and all his colleagues, those who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.