King James Version
Isaiah 43:26 in the King James Version says “Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 43 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.”
Isaiah 43:26 · KJV
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. filled: Heb. made me drunk, or, abundantly moistened
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. teachers: Heb. interpreters
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. princes: or, holy princes
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Put me in remembrance”
H2142properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e., to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
“let us plead”
H8199to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal
“declare”
H5608properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“thou that thou mayest be justified”
H6663to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
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