Isaiah 48:9

"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."

Key Reflection

This passage underscores Israel's persistent rebellion and lack of faithfulness to God from their earliest days. Despite repeated warnings and opportunities for repentance, they remained deaf to God's voice and resistant to His guidance.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For my name’s sake -(See the notes atIsaiah 43:25; compareIsaiah 66:5). It is possible that the design of this verse may be, to answer an objection. ‘If the character of the nation is such, it might be said, ‘why should God desire to restore them again to their own land? If their sins have been so great as to make these heavy judgments proper, why not suffer them to remain under the infliction of the deserved judgment? Why should God interpose? why raise up Cyrus? why overthrow Babylon? why conduct them across a pathless wilderness, and provide for them in a sandy desert?’ To this the answer is, that it was not on their account.

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