Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

Majority Standard Bible

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

7They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’

9For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:24You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

Deuteronomy 31:18And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Psalms 139:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

Isaiah 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Isaiah 29:10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

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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