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

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

LORD, when thy hand is withdrawn, they will not see: but they shall see in the end and be ashamed with the zeal of the people. And fire shall consume thine enemies.

For the LORD has extended upon you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, he has covered the seers with sleep.

Who is blind, but my slave? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the slave of the LORD,

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

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

Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

Thine ear

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

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.

O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me.

To whom shall I speak, and give warning that they may hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken, behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

I knew

Because I know that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow bronze;

A grievous vision is shown unto me. For one who is treacherous, another who deals treacherously, and for one destroyer, another destroyer. Rise up, Elam; besiege Media; all the sighing thereof I have made to cease.

And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she did not return. And her rebellious sister Judah saw it.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have made a firm decision to rebel against me, saith the LORD.

They have rebelled against the LORD; for they have begotten strange sons; now a month shall devour them with their portions.

But they have transposed the covenant as of men: there they have rebelled against me.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD by loving and marrying the daughter of a strange god.

A transgressor

Remember, and forget not, how thou hast provoked the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

Behold, the pain of my iniquity has caused me to writhe; my mother conceived me so that sin might be removed from me.

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

and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said concerning Jerusalem: Thy habitation and thy race was of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite and thy mother a Hittite.

among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as all the others.

General references

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