Isaiah 48:8

Indeed, you have not heard, || Indeed, you have not known, || Indeed, your ear has not opened from that time, || For I have known you deal treacherously, || And [are] a transgressor from the belly, || One is crying to you.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7Now they have been produced and not from that time, || Indeed, before the day, and you have not heard them, || Lest you say, Behold, I have known them.

9I defer My anger for My Name’s sake, || And [for] My praise I restrain for you, || So as not to cut you off.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:24You have been rebellious against YHWH from the day of my knowing you.

Deuteronomy 31:18And I certainly hide My face in that day for all the evil which it has done, for it has turned to other gods.

Psalms 51:5Behold, I have been brought forth in iniquity, || And my mother conceives me in sin.

Psalms 139:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH, You have searched me, and know.

Isaiah 21:2A hard vision has been declared to me, || The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, || And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, || I have caused all its sighing to cease.

Isaiah 29:10For YHWH has poured out a spirit of deep sleep on you, || And He closes your eyes—the prophets, || And your heads—the seers—He covered.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:2-9

God's Expostulation with His People. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord , and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. 2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name. 3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed… Read the whole commentary →

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