Isaiah 43:26

Webster's Bible (1833)

Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set you forth [your cause], that you may be justified.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַזְכִּירֵ֕נִי נִשָּׁפְטָ֖ה יָ֑חַד סַפֵּ֥ר אַתָּ֖ה לְמַ֥עַן תִּצְדָּֽק׃

Transliteration

hazkîrēnî, let us niššāpəṭâ yāḥad; sappēr you, so that you may tiṣdāq.

Grammar Details

• *hazkîrēnî*: imperative, masculine singular, Hiphil with 1st person singular suffix - remind me
• *niššāpəṭâ*: cohortative, 1st person plural, Niphal - let us enter into judgment
• *yāḥad*: adverb - together
• *sappēr*: imperative, masculine singular, Piel - recount/declare
• *tiṣdāq*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you may be justified

Word Meanings

• *hazkîrēnî*: remind me/put me in remembrance/cause me to remember
• *niššāpəṭâ*: let us enter into judgment/let us argue our case/let us contend
• *yāḥad*: together/as one/jointly
• *sappēr*: recount/declare/relate
• *tiṣdāq*: be justified/be right/be vindicated

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:18 : 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• Rom 8:33 : 33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
• Isa 43:9 : 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
• Job 40:4-5 : 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. 5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
• Job 40:7-8 : 7 "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. 8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
• Ps 141:2 : 2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
• Gen 32:12 : 12 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
• Job 16:21 : 21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!
• Job 23:3-6 : 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! 4 I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me. 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
• Isa 50:8 : 8 He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
• Jer 2:21-35 : 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? 22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh. 23 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. 25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets; 27 who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. 28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah. 29 Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh. 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you? 32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. 33 How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways. 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things. 35 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
• Ezek 36:37 : 37 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
• Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
• Luke 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
• Luke 18:9-9 : 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
• Rom 10:3 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
• Rom 11:35 : 35 "Or who has first given to him, And it will be repaid to him again?"
• Isa 41:1 : 1 Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.