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Isaiah 43:24 Explained in Context

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Verse 24. 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.

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The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah states or reports “Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of…” at Isaiah 43:24 as a specific part of “Unburdened Worship and Burdening Sin Meet Gratuitous Pardon.”

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  • Isaiah 43:22–28

Read Isaiah 43:24 with 43:22–28. By itself, “Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Jacob's weariness in worship and accumulated sin stand beside the divine decision to blot transgression, followed by a call to argue and a remembered history of failure.

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Read Isaiah 43:22–28 — Unburdened Worship and Burdening Sin Meet Gratuitous Pardon
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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Isaiah 43:22–28, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 43:22–28 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked

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