Isaiah 43:28

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“So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.””

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BSBPD

“So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 43:28 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  2. Deuteronomy 29:21and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
  3. 2 Samuel 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
  4. 1 Chronicles 24:5Thus they were divided by lot, for there were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among both Eleazar’s and Ithamar’s descendants.
  5. 2 Chronicles 36:17So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,
  6. Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
  7. Psalms 82:6I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’
  8. Psalms 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
  9. Isaiah 42:24Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
  10. Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
  11. Isaiah 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
  12. Jeremiah 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
  13. Jeremiah 52:27There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
  14. Lamentations 2:2Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
  15. Lamentations 2:6He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
  16. Lamentations 4:20The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
  17. Ezekiel 5:15So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  18. Daniel 9:11All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
  19. Daniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
  20. Daniel 9:14Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
  21. Zechariah 8:13As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
  22. Luke 21:21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.
  23. 1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

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