Isaiah 48:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

Thou heardest

John 12:39

Thine ear

I knew

Malachi 2:11

A transgressor

Ephesians 2:3

General references

Isaiah 50:5

Bible References

Thou heardest

He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.'

The LORD, your hand is lifted up, yet they do not see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and he has covered your heads (the seers).

Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the LORD's servant?

'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing, they do not hear, neither do they understand.

For this cause they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

Thine ear

The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.

To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

I knew

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack. I have stopped all of Media's sighing.

I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she did not return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says the LORD.

They are unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

A transgressor

Remember, do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

General references

The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.