Isaiah 48:8

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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 so he said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand; ye shall plainly see, and not perceive.

LORD, when thine hand is lift up to strike, they see it not: but they shall see it, and be confounded, when thou shalt devour them with the wrath of the people, and with the fire of thine enemies.

For the LORD shall give you a hard-sleeping spirit, and close your eyes. Your Prophets also, and heads which should see; them shall he cover.

But who is blinder, than my servant? Or so deaf, as my messengers, whom I send unto thee? For who is so blind as the perfect man, and so blind as the LORD's servant?

"Hear this, thou foolish and indiscreet people: ye have eyes, but ye see not; ears have ye, but ye hear not.

Therefore speak I to them in similitudes: For though they see, they see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither understand.

Therefore could they not believe, because that Isaiah saith again,

Thine ear

The LORD God hath opened mine ear; therefore can I not say nay, nor withdraw myself.

Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not, but mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} O LORD, thou searchest me out, and knowest me.

But unto whom shall I speak, whom shall I warn, that he may take heed? Their ears are so uncircumcised, that they may not hear. Behold, they take the word of God but for a scorn, and have no lust thereto.

I knew

Howbeit, I knew that thou art obstinate, and that thy neck hath an iron vein, and thy brow is of brass.

Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings.

Hast thou seen also, when she had done all this, how I said unto her that she should turn again unto me, and yet she is not returned? Judah, that unfaithful sister of hers also saw this:

For unfaithfully hath the house of Israel and Judah forsaken me, sayeth the LORD.

As for the LORD, they have refused him, and brought up bastard children: a month therefore shall devour them with their portions.

But even like as Adam did, so have they broken my covenant, and set me at naught.

Now hath Judah offended: yea the abomination is done in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah hath defiled the Sanctuary of the LORD, which he loved, and hath kept the daughter of a strange God.

A transgressor

Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedest the LORD thy God in the wilderness: for since the day that thou camest out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place, ye have rebelled against the LORD.

Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's womb; as soon as they be born, they go astray and speak lies.

and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God unto Jerusalem: Thy progeny and kindred came out of the land of Canaan, thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a Hittite.

among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, and fulfilled the will of the flesh, and of the mind: and were naturally the children of wrath, even as well as others.

General references

The LORD God hath opened mine ear; therefore can I not say nay, nor withdraw myself.