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 this people: 'Hear constantly but do not understand. See constantly but do not perceive.'

O Jehovah, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame. Let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.

Jehovah has made you drowsy. He shut your eyes in a deep sleep you prophets and visionaries. He overwhelmed your leaders.

Is anyone more blind than my servant or more deaf than the messenger I send?

Hear this, you stupid and senseless people! You have eyes, but you cannot see. You have ears, but you cannot hear.'

I speak to them in illustrations (stories) (parables) (allegories), because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear. They just do not understand.

Isaiah revealed the reason they could not believe:

Thine ear

The Lord Jehovah has opened my ears. I will not rebel, nor will I turn away from him.

You have not desired sacrifice and meal offering. You have opened my ears. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, you have searched me and you know me.

To whom can I speak and give warning that they may hear? Their ears are closed and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of Jehovah has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

I knew

I knew that you would prove to be stubborn. You were as rigid as iron and unyielding as copper.

I have seen a vision of cruel events, a vision of betrayal and destruction. Army of Elam, attack! Army of Media, lay siege to the cities! God will put an end to the suffering that Babylon has caused.

I thought that after she had done all this she would come back to me. But she did not come back, and her treacherous (unstable) (unreliable) (false) sister Judah saw her.

The house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously with me, says Jehovah.

They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah! They have borne strange children: now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

Like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.

The people of Judah have done wrong. They deal treacherously and committed an abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

A transgressor

Never forget how you made Jehovah your God angry in the desert. You rebelled against Jehovah from the day you left Egypt until you came here.

Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born. They speak lies.

Say this, 'The Lord Jehovah says this to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

General references

The Lord Jehovah has opened my ears. I will not rebel, nor will I turn away from him.