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6 “You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7 They are created now and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
8 Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called aa transgressor from the womb. 
9 “Fora My name’s sake bI will defer My anger,
And for My praise I will restrain it from you,
So that I do not cut you off. 
10 Behold, aI have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the bfurnace of affliction. 
11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it;
For ahow should My name be profaned?
And bI will not give My glory to another. 

God’s Ancient Plan to Redeem Israel

12 “Listen to Me, O Jacob,
And Israel, My called:
I am He, aI am the bFirst,
I am also the Last. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 48:8

heardest not—repeated, as also "knewest not," from Isaiah 48:7.

from that time—Mine anger towards thee. Omit "that." "Yea, from "the first thine ear did not open itself," namely, to obey them [ROSENMULLER]. "To open the ear" denotes obedient attention (Isaiah 50:5); or, "was not opened" to receive them; that is, they were not declared by Me to thee previously, since, if thou hadst been informed of them, such is thy perversity, thou couldst not have been kept in check [MAURER]. In the former view, the sense of the words following is, "For I knew that, if I had not foretold the destruction of Babylon so plainly that there could be no perverting of it, thou wouldst have perversely ascribed it to idols, or something else than to Me" (Isaiah 48:5). Thus they would have relapsed into idolatry, to cure them of which the Babylonian captivity was sent: so they had done (Exodus 32:4). After the return, and ever since, they have utterly forsaken idols.

wast called—as thine appropriate appellation (Isaiah 9:6).

from the womb—from the beginning of Israel's national existence (Isaiah 44:2).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 48:8:

Psalms 40:6-8
Isaiah 50:5
Isaiah 59:13

 

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