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“But, dear family of Jacob, you refuse to ask for my help. You have grown tired of me, O Israel!
Isaiah 43:22 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
  • KJV But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
  • BSB But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
  • NKJV “But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob; And you have been weary of Me, O Israel.
  • NASB ¶“Yet you have not called on Me, Jacob; But you have become weary of Me, Israel.

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Quick answer

Despite all His goodness, Israel has not called on God but grown weary of Him. It exposes the people's spiritual indifference toward their gracious Redeemer.

Overview

God turns to indictment: His people neglected prayer and tired of His worship. Their weariness reveals a heart cold toward grace. This honest exposure of sin makes the unmerited forgiveness that follows all the more amazing, a forgiveness secured in Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Mic 6:3My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
  • Mal 3:14You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
  • Mal 1:13You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
  • Jas 4:2–3You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
  • Jer 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
  • Dan 9:13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
  • Hos 7:10–14The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
  • Hos 14:1–2Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
  • John 6:66–69At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
  • Jer 2:5Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
  • Isa 64:7There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
  • Job 21:14–15They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
  • Job 27:9–10Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
  • Jer 2:11–13Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
  • Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
  • Ps 79:6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;
  • Jer 2:31–32Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 43:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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