Isaiah 43:22
But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
BSB
ASV
Yet thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
KJV
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
(Verse 22) You did not call upon me, Jacob: you did not labor for me, Israel. LXX: You have not now called, Jacob, nor have I made you labor, Israel. The beasts of the field, dragons and ostriches praising me, you, Jacob, did not want to invoke me, nor afterwards did you labor to amend sin through repentance.
For, (1.) They had cast off prayer: Thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob! Jacob was a man famous for prayer ( Hosea xii. 4 ); his seed bore his name, but did not tread in his steps, and therefore are justly upbraided with it.
God's goodness takes occasion from man's badness to appear so much the more illustrious. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound ( Rom. v. 20 ), and mercy rejoices against judgment, as having prevailed and carried the day, Jam. ii.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Malachi 3:14You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
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“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress…
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
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Micah 6:3‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!
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This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
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Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished…
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Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
