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Isa 48:8 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

thou heardest		Isa 6:9,10; Isa 26:11; Isa 29:10,11; Isa 42:19,20; Jer 5:21; Mat 13:13-15; Jhn 12:39,40
thine ear		Isa 50:5; Psa 40:6; Psa 139:1-4; Jer 6:10
I knew		Isa 48:4; Isa 21:2; Jer 3:7-11,20; Jer 5:11; Hsa 5:7; Hsa 6:7; Mal 2:11
a transgressor		Deu 9:7-24; Psa 51:5; Psa 58:3; Eze 16:3-5; Eph 2:3

Correlating Passages

thou heardest

	Isa 6:9	And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
	Isa 6:10	Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
	Isa 26:11	LORD, [when] thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be ashamed for [their] envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
	Isa 29:10	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.
	Isa 29:11	And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:
	Isa 42:19	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?
	Isa 42:20	Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
	Jer 5:21	Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
	Mat 13:13	Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
	Mat 13:14	And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
	Mat 13:15	For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
	Jhn 12:39	Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
	Jhn 12:40	He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

thine ear

	Isa 50:5	The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
	Psa 40:6	Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
	Psa 139:1	[[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.]] O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
	Psa 139:2	Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
	Psa 139:3	Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.
	Psa 139:4	For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
	Jer 6:10	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 unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

I knew

	Isa 48:4	Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
	Isa 21:2	A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
	Jer 3:7	And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw [it].
	Jer 3:8	And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
	Jer 3:9	And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
	Jer 3:10	And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
	Jer 3:11	And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
	Jer 3:20	Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
	Jer 5:11	For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
	Hsa 5:7	They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
	Hsa 6:7	But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
	Mal 2:11	Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

a transgressor

	Deu 9:7	Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
	Deu 9:8	Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
	Deu 9:9	When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
	Deu 9:10	And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
	Deu 9:11	And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant.
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	Psa 51:5	Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
	Psa 58:3	The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
	Eze 16:3	And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the land of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
	Eze 16:4	And [as for] thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple [thee]; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
	Eze 16:5	None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
	Eph 2:3	Among whom also we all had our conversation 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 48:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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