Isaiah 43 · Verse 28

Isaiah 43:28

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Isaiah 43:28, King James Version

Isaiah 43:28 in other translations

BSBSo I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
WEBTherefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
ASVTherefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.
YLTAnd I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!
DARBYAnd I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches.
BBEYour chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.
WebsterTherefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

What does Isaiah 43:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
28. profaned the princes--(Psa 89:39; La 2:2, 6, 7). I have esteemed, or treated, them as persons not sacred. I have left them to suffer the same treatment as the common people, stripped of their holy office and in captivity. princes of the sanctuary--"governors of" it (1Ch 24:5); directing its holy services; priests. curse--Hebrew, cherim, a "solemn anathema," or "excommunication." reproaches--(Psa 123:3, 4).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary "Thy princes have profaned my sanctuary" - Instead of ואחלל שרי vaachallel sarey, read ויחללו שריך vayechalelu sareycha. So the Syriac and Septuagint, και εμιαναν οἱ αρχοντες τα ἁγια μου, "the rulers have defiled my holy things." קדשי kodshi, Houbigant. Οἱ αρχοντες σου, "thy rulers, "MSS. Pachom. and 1. D. 2 and Marchal. To reproaches "To reproach" - לגדופה ligeduphah, in the singular number; so an ancient MS. and the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. And, alas! what a curse do they still bear, and what reproach do they still suffer! No national crimes have ever equalled those of the Jewish nation, for no nation ever had such privileges to neglect, despise, sin against. When shall this severity of God towards this people have an end? Answ. Whenever, with one heart, they turn to him, and receive the doctrine of the Lord Jesus; and not till then.

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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 43:28 in the original Hebrew

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וַאֲחַלֵּ֖לva.'a.cha.Lelso I may profaneH2490
שָׂ֣רֵיSa.rei[the] officials ofH8269
קֹ֑דֶשׁKo.deshholinessH6944
וְאֶתְּנָ֤הve.'e.te.Nahand I will giveH5414
לַחֵ֙רֶם֙la.Che.remto <the> total destructionH2764
יַעֲקֹ֔בya.'a.KoJacobH3290
וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖לve.Yis.ra.'Eland IsraelH3478
לְגִדּוּפִֽים\׃\ \סle.gi.du.Fimto reviling wordsH1421

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Cross references for Isaiah 43:28

  • Jeremiah 24:9

    And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

  • Isaiah 65:15

    And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

  • Zechariah 8:13

    And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

  • Deuteronomy 28:15-20

    But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. …

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:16

    Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

  • Isaiah 47:6

    I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

  • Lamentations 2:2

    The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

  • Psalms 79:4

    We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

  • Psalms 82:6-7

    I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

  • Daniel 9:14

    Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

  • Psalms 89:39

    Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

  • Lamentations 2:6-7

    And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I have.
47:6; 2Sa 1:21; Ps 89:39; La 2:2,6,7; 4:20
princes. or, holy princes.
Ps 82:6,7
and have.
42:24,25; 65:15; De 28:15-20; 29:21-28; Ps 79:4; Jer 24:9; Da 9:14
Zec 8:13; Lu 21:21-24; 1Th 2:16

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Context

  • 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 43:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Por tanto, yo profané los príncipes del santuario, y puse por anatema á Jacob, y por oprobio á Israel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et j’ai profané les chefs du lieu saint, et j’ai livré Jacob à la destruction et Israël à l’opprobre.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und ich habe die Fürsten des Heiligtums entweiht, und Jakob dem Banne und Israel den Schmähungen hingegeben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et contaminavi principes sanctos; dedi ad internecionem Jacob, et Israël in blasphemiam.