Isaiah 43:27

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
first	הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן ha.ri.Shon	H7223	first · definite article + ordinal number, masculine singular absolute
father	אָבִ֥יךָ 'a.Vi.kha	H1	father · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
sinned	חָטָ֑א cha.Ta'	H2398	properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
teachers	וּמְלִיצֶ֖יךָ u.me.li.Tzei.kha	H3887	properly · conjunction + verb, hiphil active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
transgressed	פָּ֥שְׁעוּ Pa.she.'u	H6586	to break away (from just authority) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Isaiah 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong dri…
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end th…
Lamentations 4:13-14 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
Ezekiel 16:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mot…
Ezekiel 22:25-28 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken…
Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy…
Isaiah 56:10-12 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Jeremiah 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth eve…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:22–end

This charge (and a high charge it is which is here exhibited against Jacob and Israel, God's professing people) comes in here, 1. To clear God's justice in bringing them into captivity, and to vindicate that. Were they not in covenant with him? Had they not his sanctuary among them? Why then did the Lord deal thus with his land? Deu 29:24. Here is a good reason given: they had neglected God and had cast him off, and therefore he justly rejected them and gave them to the curse (Isa 43:28); and they must be brought to own this before they are prepared for deliverance; and they did so, Dan 9:5; Neh 9:33. 2. To advance God's mercy in their deliverance and to make that appear more glorious. Many…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 43:27

first father--collectively for "most ancient ancestors," as the parallelism ("teachers") proves [MAURER]. Or, thy chief religious ministers or priests [GESENIUS]. Adam, the common father of all nations, can hardly be meant here, as it would have been irrelevant to mention his sin in an address to the Jews specially. Abraham is equally out of place here, as he is everywhere cited as an example of faithfulness, not of "sin." However, taking the passage in its ultimate application to the Church at large, Adam may be meant. teachers--literally, "interpreters" between God and man, the priests (Job 33:23; Mal 2:7).

John Gill on Isaiah 43:27

Thy first father hath sinned,.... Either Adam, as Kimchi, in whom all have sinned, and from whom all derive a sinful and corrupt nature; or Abraham, as Jarchi, the father of the Jewish nation, of whom they boasted, and in whom they trusted, as being of his seed, and through whose merits and worthiness they expected great things; yet he was but a sinful man, though a good man, and a great believer; of whose infirmity and frailty many instances are on record. Some have thought Terah the father of Abraham is designed, who was an idolater; others think some particular king is meant, the father of his people; Aben Ezra supposes Jeroboam to be intended, the first king of the ten tribes who made Is…

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The Church Fathers

[The Lord] has proclaimed these words in addressing those who were in Babylon. It is not I, he says, who am the cause of these misfortunes, but your ancestors, and your priests, who have transgressed my laws. Their iniquity has transformed the renown of Israel to an object of shame.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 13:43.27

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Dictionary and topics

Adam · .Temptation and sin ofGe 3; — .Temptation and sin ofGe 3;
Fall Of Man · 31:33; — 31:33;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 43:27

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 43:27

John Gill on Isaiah 43:27

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 43:27

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 43:27

John Gill on Isaiah 43:27

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Isaiah 43:27

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 43:27

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 43:27

Rashi on Isaiah 43:27