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

LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yes, the fire of thy enemies shall devour them.

For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?

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

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

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

Thine ear

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

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; my ears hast thou opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

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

I knew

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

A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler plundereth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made to cease.

And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD whom he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

A transgressor

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

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

Among whom also we all had our manner of life 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 others.

General references

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