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Isa. 43:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy δteachers have transgressed against me.

interpreters,

Mal. 2:7‑8• ⁷For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.
⁸But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 2:7‑8)

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Num. 32:14• ¹⁴And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a progeny of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. (Num. 32:14)

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Psa. 78:8• ⁸And might not be as their fathers,{HR}A stubborn and rebellious generation,{HR}A generation that set (prepared) not their hearts,{HR}And whose spirit was not steadfast with God (El). (Psa. 78:8)

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Psa. 106:6‑7• ⁶We have sinned with our fathers,{HR}We have been perverse,{HR}We have done wickedly.
⁷Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders;{HR}They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies,{HR}But rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea. (Psa. 106:6‑7)

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Jer. 3:25• ²⁵We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God. (Jer. 3:25)

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Ezek. 16:3• ³and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite. (Ezek. 16:3)

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Zech. 1:4‑6• ⁴Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings; but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah.
⁵Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
⁶But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us. (Zech. 1:4‑6)

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Mal. 3:7• ⁷Even 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 Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return? (Mal. 3:7)

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Acts 7:51• ⁵¹Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers so ye. (Acts 7:51)

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Rom. 5:12• ¹²On this account as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death, and thus death passed unto all men, for that all sinned: (Rom. 5:12)

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Isa. 3:12• ¹²[As for] my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that lead thee mislead [thee], and destroy the way of thy paths. (Isa. 3:12)

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Isa. 28:7• ⁷But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment. (Isa. 28:7)

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Isa. 56:10‑12• ¹⁰His watchmen [are] blind, they are all without knowledge; they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
¹¹Yea, the dogs [are] greedy, they can never have enough; and these [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
¹²Come ye, [say they,] I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure. (Isa. 56:10‑12)

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Jer. 5:31• ³¹the prophets prophesy falsehood, and the priests rule by their means; and my people love to have it so. But what will ye do in the end thereof? (Jer. 5:31)

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Jer. 23:11‑15• ¹¹For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
¹²Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
¹³And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
¹⁴And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
¹⁵Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jer. 23:11‑15)

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Lam. 4:13‑14• ¹³Because of the sins of her prophets,{HR}The iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
¹⁴They wandered blind in the streets, they were defiled with blood,{HR}So that men could not touch their garments. (Lam. 4:13‑14)

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Ezek. 22:25‑28• ²⁵There 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.
²⁶Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
²⁸And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken. (Ezek. 22:25‑28)

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Hos. 4:6• ⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I too will forget thy children. (Hos. 4:6)

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Mic. 3:11• ¹¹The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us. (Mic. 3:11)

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Mal. 2:4‑8• ⁴And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.
⁵my covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
⁶The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
⁷For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.
⁸But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 2:4‑8)

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Matt. 15:14• ¹⁴Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch. (Matt. 15:14)

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Matt. 27:1,41• ¹And when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so that they might put him to death.
⁴¹[And] in like manner the chief priests also, mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, (Matt. 27:1,41)

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John 11:49‑53• ⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest of that year, said to them, Ye know nothing,
⁵⁰nor reckon that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.
⁵¹Now this he said not from himself, but, being high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
⁵²and not for the nation only, but that also he should gather together into one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
⁵³From that day therefore they consulted that they might kill him. (John 11:49‑53)

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Acts 5:17‑18• ¹⁷And the high priest rising up, and all those that were with him, which is [the] sect of the Sadducees, were filled with wrath,
¹⁸and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in public ward. (Acts 5:17‑18)

teacher.

Heb. interpreters.

J. N. Darby Translation

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy mediatorsa have rebelledb against me.

JND Translation Notes

Lit. "interpreters." those who have the office, as it were, of God's ambassadors to the people. see Job 33.23; also Gen. 42.23; 2 Chron. 32.31.

See ch. 1.2, and the Note.

W. Kelly Translation

Thy first father sinned, and thine interpreters have transgressed against me.