Lord, you said to me, ‘I will be good to you. I will increase your family and make your children as many as the sands of the sea. There will be too many to count.’”
Isaiah 43:26 - Easy To Read Version But you should remember me. We should meet together and decide what is right. You should tell the things \{you have done\} and show you are right. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Lord, you said to me, ‘I will be good to you. I will increase your family and make your children as many as the sands of the sea. There will be too many to count.’”
He speaks to God for me\par like a person {\cf2\super [31]} arguing for his friend.\par
Lord, accept my prayer.\par Let it be like a gift of burning incense.\par Let it be like the evening sacrifice. {\cf2\super [641]} \par
The Lord says, “Come, let’s discuss these things. Your sins are red like scarlet, {\cf2\super [11]} but they can be \{washed away and you will be\} white like snow. Your sins are bright red, but you can become white like wool.
The Lord says,\par “Faraway countries, be quiet\par and come to me!\par Nations be brave. {\cf2\super [375]} \par Come to me and speak.\par We will meet together,\par and we will decide who is right.\par
All people and all nations should also be gathered together. Maybe \{one of their false gods\} wants to tell about what happened in the beginning. They should bring their witnesses. The witnesses should speak the truth. This will show they are right.”
The Lord is with me. He shows I am innocent. So no person will be able to show I am guilty. If someone wants to try to prove I am wrong, that person should come to me, and we will have a trial.
The Lord my Master says these things, “I will also let the family of Israel come to me and ask me to do these things for them. I will make them grow and become many, many people. They will be like flocks of sheep.
But the man wanted to show that the way he was living was right. So he said to Jesus, “But who are these other people I must love?”
Jesus said to the Pharisees, “You make yourselves look good in front of people. But God knows what is really in your hearts. The things that people think are important are worth nothing to God.
They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.
“Who has ever given God anything?\par God owes nothing to any person.”\par \i (Job 41:11)\i0 \par
Who can accuse the people that God has chosen? No one! God is the One who makes his people right.