Isaiah 43 · Verse 27

Isaiah 43:27

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
Isaiah 43:27, King James Version

Isaiah 43:27 in other translations

BSBYour first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.
WEBYour first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
ASVThy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
YLTThy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,
DARBYThy first father hath sinned, and thy mediators have rebelled against me.
BBEYour first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.
WebsterThy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

What does Isaiah 43:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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).

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 Thy first father hath sinned - On this Kimchi speaks well: "How can ye say that ye have not sinned, seeing your first father, Adam, sinned; and man hath sin impressed on him through natural generation?"

Adam Clarke, 1831 · 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 43:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אָבִ֥יךָ'a.Vi.khaancestor yourH1
הָרִאשׁ֖וֹןha.ri.Shon<the> firstH7223
חָטָ֑אcha.Ta'he sinnedH2398
וּמְלִיצֶ֖יךָu.me.li.Tzei.khaand spokesmen yourH3887
פָּ֥שְׁעוּPa.she.'uthey transgressedH6586
בִֽי\׃Viagainst me

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

Cross references for Isaiah 43:27

  • 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 thereof?

  • 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 drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • 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 mother an Hittite.

  • 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 the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.

  • 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, They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • Malachi 3:7

    Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

  • Matthew 27:1

    When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

  • 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 the way of thy paths.

  • Romans 5:12

    Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

  • Matthew 27:41

    Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,

  • Jeremiah 23:11-15

    For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. …

  • Micah 3:11

    The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
first father.
Nu 32:14; Ps 78:8; 106:6,7; Jer 3:25; Eze 16:3; Zec 1:4-6; Mal 3:7
Ac 7:51; Ro 5:12
and thy.
3:12; 28:7; 56:10-12; Jer 5:31; 23:11-15; La 4:13,14; Eze 22:25-28
Ho 4:6; Mic 3:11; Mal 2:4-8; Mt 15:14; 27:1,41; Joh 11:49-53
Ac 5:17,18
teacher. Heb. interpreters.

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Context

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 43:28

    Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

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Isaiah 43:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tu primer padre pecó, y tus enseñadores prevaricaron contra mí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ton premier père a péché, et tes médiateurs se sont rebellés contre moi;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Dein erster Vater hat gesündigt, und deine Mittler sind von mir abgefallen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Pater tuus primus peccavit, et interpretes tui prævaricati sunt in me: