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

A transgressor

Ephesians 2:3

General references

Isaiah 50:5

Bible References

Thou heardest

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but do not understand, and see ye indeed, but do not perceive.

LORD, thy hand is lifted up, yet they do not see. But they shall see [thy] zeal for the people, and be put to shame. Yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.

For LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. The prophets, and your heads, the seers, he has covered.

Who is blind, but my servant, or deaf, as my messenger that I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace [with me], and blind as LORD's servant?

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

Because of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor do they understand.

Because of this they could not believe. Because Isaiah said again,

Thine ear

Lord LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backward.

Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, {but a body thou have prepared for me (LXX/NT)}. Whole burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou did not require.

O LORD, thou have searched me, and known.

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

I knew

Because I knew that thou are obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease.

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

They have dealt treacherously against LORD, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.

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

A transgressor

Remember, do not thou forget how thou provoked LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou went forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came to this place, ye have been rebellious against LORD.

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

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

and say, Thus says lord LORD to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is from the land of the Canaanite. The Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

General references

Lord LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backward.