Isaiah 48:8

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“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Yea, thou hast not heard, Yea, thou hast not known, Yea, from that time not opened hath thine ear, For I have known thou dealest treacherously, And `Transgressor from the belly,' One is crying to thee.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 48:8 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 9:7Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
  2. Deuteronomy 9:24You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
  3. Deuteronomy 31:16And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
  4. 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.
  5. Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
  6. Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
  7. Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
  8. Psalms 139:1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
  9. Isaiah 6:9And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
  10. 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.”
  11. Isaiah 26:11O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
  12. 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.
  13. Isaiah 42:19Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?
  14. Isaiah 42:20Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
  15. Isaiah 46:8Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
  16. Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
  17. Isaiah 50:5The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
  18. Jeremiah 3:7I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
  19. Jeremiah 3:20But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
  20. Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.
  21. Jeremiah 5:21“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
  22. Jeremiah 6:10To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
  23. Ezekiel 16:3and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD 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.
  24. Hosea 5:7They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

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