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 go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
• Hos 5:7They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
• Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
• Matt 13:13–15Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
• John 12:39–40For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
• Isa 42:19–20Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
• Mal 2:11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
• Ezek 16:3–5and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
• Ps 40:6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
• Isa 6:9–10He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
• Ps 139:1–4For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
• Jer 3:7–11I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
• Isa 26:11Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
• Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Jer 3:20“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
• Deut 9:7–24Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
• Isa 29:10–11For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
• Isa 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
• Isa 50:5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
• Jer 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 46:8“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
• Jer 5:21‘Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don’t see; who have ears, and don’t hear:
• Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

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