Isaiah 43:22-28

22 “Yet you have not called on me, Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for[a] me, Israel.
23 You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.
24 You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.
25 “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
26 Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
27 Your first father sinned; those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.
28 So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple; I consigned Jacob to destruction[b] and Israel to scorn.

Cross References 23

  • 1. S Joshua 22:5; S Isaiah 1:14
  • 2. Isaiah 30:11
  • 3. S Exodus 29:41
  • 4. Zechariah 7:5-6; Malachi 1:6-8
  • 5. Amos 5:25
  • 6. Micah 6:3; Malachi 1:12-13
  • 7. Jeremiah 7:22
  • 8. Exodus 30:35; S Leviticus 2:1
  • 9. S Exodus 30:23
  • 10. Leviticus 3:9
  • 11. S Isaiah 1:14; S Isaiah 7:13; S Jeremiah 8:21
  • 12. Jeremiah 44:22; Malachi 2:17
  • 13. S 2 Samuel 12:13; S 2 Chronicles 6:21; Mark 2:7; Luke 5:21; Acts 3:19
  • 14. S Isaiah 37:35; S Ezekiel 20:44; Ezekiel 36:22
  • 15. Isaiah 64:9; Micah 7:18
  • 16. S Job 7:21; S Isaiah 38:17; Jeremiah 31:34
  • 17. S Isaiah 1:18
  • 18. S Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 49:25; Isaiah 50:8
  • 19. S Genesis 12:18
  • 20. Isaiah 9:15; Isaiah 28:7; Jeremiah 5:31
  • 21. S Isaiah 24:20; S Isaiah 48:8
  • 22. S Numbers 5:27; S Deuteronomy 13:15; S Isaiah 42:24; S Zechariah 5:3
  • 23. S Psalms 39:8; Jeremiah 24:9; Ezekiel 5:15

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or "Jacob;" / "surely you have grown weary of"
  • [b]. The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
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