Isaiah 43:26 Cross References - LXX2012

²⁶ But do you remember, and let us plead [together]: do you first confess your transgressions, that you may be justified.

¹² But you said, I will do you good, and will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.

²¹ Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]? ⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me. ⁶ Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me;

⁴ Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his? ⁵ Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor.

⁷ Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly. ⁸ And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

² I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him mine affliction.

¹⁸ And come, let us reason together, says the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make [them] white as wool.

¹ Hold a feast to me, you⌃ islands: for the princes shall renew [their] strength: let them draw near and speak together: then let them declare judgment.

⁹ All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them: who will declare these things? or who will declare to you things from the beginning? let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.

⁸ for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let him stand up against me at the same time: yes, who is he that pleads with me? let him draw near to me.

²¹ Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness! ²² Though you should wash yourself with nitre, and multiply to yourself soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before me, says the Lord. ²³ How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening: ²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her. ²⁵ Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them. ²⁶ As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets. ²⁷ They said to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You has begotten me: and they have turned [their] backs to me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us. ²⁸ And where are your gods, which you made for yourself? will they arise and save in the time of your affliction? for according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal. ²⁹ Therefore do you⌃ speak to me? you⌃ all have been ungodly, and you⌃ all have transgressed against me, says the Lord. ³⁰ In vain have I struck your children; you⌃ have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you⌃ feared not. ³¹ Hear you⌃ the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? therefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to you any more? ³² Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number. ³³ What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? [it shall] not [be] so; moreover you has done wickedly in corrupting your ways; ³⁴ and in your hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak. ³⁵ Yet you said, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I [will] plead with you, whereas you say, I have not sinned.

³⁷ Thus says the Lord God; Yet [for] this will I be sought by the house of Israel, to establish them; I will multiply them [even] men as sheep;