Isaiah 43:27

Israel's first father and their teachers alike sinned and transgressed against God. It traces their guilt back through generations to underscore deep-seated sinfulness.

Cross-references · 25

• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
• Isa 28:7These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
• Ezek 16:3and tell her that 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.
• Lam 4:13–14But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
• Ezek 22:25–28The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.
• Jer 23:11–15“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
• Matt 27:41In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,
• Matt 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
• Jer 3:25Let 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 our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
• Zech 1:4–6Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
• Matt 27:1When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
• Isa 3:12Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
• Mic 3:11Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
• Mal 2:4–8Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
• Acts 5:17–18Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
• Mal 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and 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?’
• Isa 56:10–12Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
• John 11:49–53But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
• Rom 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
• Ps 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
• Num 32:14Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
• Ps 106:6–7We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
• Isa 9:15The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

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