But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
Isaiah 43:26 - English Standard Version 2016 Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved 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. |
But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall 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.
All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
“Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.