Isaiah 43 · Verse 26

Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
Isaiah 43:26, King James Version

Isaiah 43:26 in other translations

BSBRemind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
WEBPut me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
ASVPut me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified.
YLTCause me to remember--we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.
DARBYPut me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse thine own cause, that thou mayest be justified.
BBEPut me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
WebsterPut me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

What does Isaiah 43:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
26. Put me in remembrance--Remind Me of every plea which thou hast to urge before Me in thy defense. Image from a trial (Is 1:18; 41:1). Our strongest plea is to remind God of His own promises. So Jacob did at Mahanaim and Peniel (Ge 32:9, 12). God, then, instead of "pleading against us with His great power," "will put His strength" in us (Job 23:6); we thus become "the Lord's remembrancers" (Is 62:6, Margin). "Declare God's righteousness" vindicated in Jesus Christ "that thou mayest be justified" (Ro 3:26; compare Is 20:1-6, and Psa 143:2).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 43:22-28

Those who neglect to call upon God, are weary of him. The Master tired not the servants with his commands, but they tired him with disobedience. What were the riches of God's mercy toward them? I, even I, am he who yet blotteth out thy transgressions. This encourages us to repent, because there is forgiveness with God, and shows the freeness of Divine mercy. When God forgives, he forgets. It is not for any thing in…

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Isaiah 43:26 in the original Hebrew

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הַזְכִּירֵ֕נִיhaz.ki.Re.nicause to remember meH2142
נִשָּׁפְטָ֖הni.sha.fe.Tahlet us enter into judgmentH8199
יָ֑חַדYa.chadtogetherH3162
סַפֵּ֥רsa.PerrecountH5608
אַתָּ֖ה'a.TahO youH859
לְמַ֥עַןle.Ma.'anso thatH4616
תִּצְדָּֽק\׃titz.Dakyou may be justifiedH6663

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 43:26

  • Isaiah 1:18

    Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

  • Isaiah 43:9

    Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

  • Romans 8:33

    Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

  • Psalms 141:2

    Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

  • Jeremiah 2:21-35

    Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. …

  • Isaiah 41:1

    Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

  • Job 40:7-8

    Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

  • Romans 10:3

    For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

  • Isaiah 50:8

    He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

  • Genesis 32:12

    And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

  • Job 16:21

    O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

  • Job 23:3-6

    Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Put.
1:18; Ge 32:12; Job 16:21; 23:3-6; 40:4,5; Ps 141:2; Jer 2:21-35
Eze 36:37; Ro 11:35
declare.
9; Job 40:7,8; Lu 10:29; 16:15; 18:9-14; Ro 8:33; 10:3

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Context

  • Isaiah 43:25

    I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

  • Isaiah 43:26

    Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

  • Isaiah 43:27

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

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Isaiah 43:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Hazme acordar, entremos en juicio juntamente; relata tú para abonarte.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Fais-moi souvenir, plaidons ensemble; raconte toi-même, afin que tu sois justifié.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Rufe mir ins Gedächtnis, wir wollen rechten miteinander; erzähle doch, damit du gerechtfertigt werdest!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Reduc me in memoriam, et judicemur simul: narra si quid habes ut justificeris.