Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’ ”
Isaiah 43:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Accuse me; let us go to trial; set forth your case, so that you may be proved right. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Put Me in remembrance [remind Me of your merits]; let us plead and argue together. Set forth your case, that you may be justified (proved right). American Standard Version (1901) Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified. Common English Bible Summon me, and let’s go to trial together; you tell your story so that you may be vindicated! Catholic Public Domain Version Call me to mind, and let us go to judgment together. If you have anything to justify yourself, explain it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou hast any thing to justify thyself. |
Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’ ”
that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God, as one does for a neighbor.
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.
Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: If your sins are like scarlet, will they become like snow? If they are red like crimson, will they become like wool?
Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them declared this and foretold to us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to justify them, and let them hear and say, “It is true.”
he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand in court together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me.
Thus says the Lord God: I will also let the house of Israel ask me to do this for them: to multiply their people like sheep.
But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts, for what is prized by humans is an abomination in the sight of God.
Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.