Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. (f) That is, rejected, abhorred, and destroyed them in the wilderness and at other times.
Isa 43:28 Consequently the all-holy One was obliged to do what had taken place. “Then I profaned holy princes, and gave up Jacob to the curse, and Israel to blasphemies.” ואחלל might be an imperfect, like ואכל, “I ate,” in Isa 44:19, and ואבּיט, “I looked,” in Isa 63:5; but ואתּנה by the side of it shows that the pointing sprang out of the future...
28. Therefore I will pollute. The copulative ו (vau) here means therefore, and the preterite tense, I have polluted, ought to have a future signification, though it may also be rendered in the past tense; but I have preferred the future, in order to apply it to the time of the captivity; for he directly addresses those who were to live under the captivity.