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 these people: 'Listen continually, but don't understand! Look continually, but don't perceive!'

O Lord, you are ready to act, but they don't even notice. They will see and be put to shame by your angry judgment against humankind, yes, fire will consume your enemies.

For the Lord has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).

My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the Lord, is truly blind.

Tell them: 'Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

Thine ear

The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.

Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

For the music director, a psalm of David. O Lord, you examine me and know.

I answered, "Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

I knew

I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

I have received a distressing message: "The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!"

Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did.

For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me," says the Lord.

They have committed treason against the Lord, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.

At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god!

A transgressor

Remember -- don't ever forget -- how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.

and say, 'This is what the sovereign Lord 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.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest

General references

The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.