Isaiah 48:8

Israel has been treacherous and rebellious from birth, so God did not entrust everything to them in advance. Human sin runs deep from the start.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
• Hos 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.
• Jer 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.
• Matt 13:13–15This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
• John 12:39–40For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
• Isa 42:19–20Who 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?
• Mal 2:11Judah 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.
• Ezek 16:3–5and 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.
• Ps 40:6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
• Isa 6:9–10And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
• Ps 139:1–4For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
• Jer 3:7–11I 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.
• Isa 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!
• Ps 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Eph 2:3All 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.
• Jer 3:20But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
• Isa 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.”
• Deut 9:7–24Remember 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.
• Isa 29:10–11For 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.
• Isa 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
• Isa 50:5The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.
• Jer 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.
• Isa 46:8Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
• Jer 5:21“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
• Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

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