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

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

Lord, Your hand is lifted up to take action,
but they do not see it.
They will see Your zeal for Your people,
and they will be put to shame.
The fire for Your adversaries will consume them!

For the Lord has poured out on you
an overwhelming urge to sleep;
He has shut your eyes—the prophets,
and covered your heads—the seers.

Who is blind but My servant,
or deaf like My messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like My dedicated one,
or blind like the servant of the Lord?

Hear this,
you foolish and senseless people.
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear.

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:

Thine ear

The Lord God has opened My ear,
and I was not rebellious;
I did not turn back.

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
You open my ears to listen.
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, You have searched me and known me.

Who can I speak to and give such a warning
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,

so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.

I knew

Because I know that you are stubborn,
and your neck is iron
and your forehead bronze,

A troubling vision is declared to me:
“The treacherous one acts treacherously,
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all her groaning.”

I thought: After she has done all these things, she will return to Me. But she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

They, the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
have dealt very treacherously with Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

They betrayed the Lord;
indeed, they gave birth to illegitimate children.
Now the New Moon will devour them
along with their fields.

But they, like Adam, have violated the covenant;
there they have betrayed Me.

Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the Lord’s sanctuary,

which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

A transgressor

“Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.

Indeed, I was guilty when I was born;
I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

The wicked go astray from the womb;
liars err from birth.

You are to say: This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

General references

The Lord God has opened My ear,
and I was not rebellious;
I did not turn back.