Isaiah 48:8 “You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Yet thou heardest them not, neither diddest know them, neither yet was thine eare opened of olde: for I knewe that thou wouldest grieuously transgresse: therefore haue I called thee a transgressour from the wombe.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

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Cross references

“thou heardest”

Matthew 13:13–15 Isaiah 26:11 Jeremiah 5:21 Isaiah 6:9 Isaiah 6:10 Isaiah 29:10

Matthew 13:13–15 · BSB

This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’

Isaiah 26:11 · BSB

O 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!

Jeremiah 5:21 · BSB

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Isaiah 6:9 · BSB

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

Isaiah 6:10 · BSB

Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed. ”

Isaiah 29:10 · BSB

For 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.

“thine ear”

Jeremiah 6:10 Isaiah 50:5 Psalm 40:6 Psalm 139:1–4

Jeremiah 6:10 · BSB

To 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.

Isaiah 50:5 · BSB

The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.

Psalm 40:6 · BSB

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

Psalm 139:1–4 · BSB

O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

“I knew”

Hosea 5:7 Malachi 2:11 Isaiah 48:4 Isaiah 21:2 Jeremiah 3:7–11 Jeremiah 3:20

Hosea 5:7 · BSB

They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

Malachi 2:11 · BSB

Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

Isaiah 48:4 · BSB

For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

Isaiah 21:2 · BSB

A 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.”

Jeremiah 3:7–11 · BSB

I 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.

Jeremiah 3:20 · BSB

But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

“a transgressor”

Psalm 58:3 Ezekiel 16:3–5 Deuteronomy 9:7–24 Psalm 51:5 Ephesians 2:3

Psalm 58:3 · BSB

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

Ezekiel 16:3–5 · BSB

and 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.

Deuteronomy 9:7–24 · BSB

Remember 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.

Psalm 51:5 · BSB

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Ephesians 2:3 · BSB

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Also

Isaiah 46:8

Isaiah 46:8 · BSB

Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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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