Isaiah 48:8

New Century Version

But you have not heard me; you have not understood. Even long ago you did not listen to me. I knew you would surely turn against me; you have fought against me since you were born.

Cross References

Psalm 40:6

You do not want sacrifices and offerings. But you have made a hole in my ear to show that my body and life are yours. You do not ask for burnt offerings and sacrifices to take away sins.

Psalm 51:5

I was brought into this world in sin. In sin my mother gave birth to me.

Psalm 58:3

From birth, evil people turn away from God; they wander off and tell lies as soon as they are born.

Isaiah 21:2

I have seen a terrible vision. I see traitors turning against you and people taking your wealth. Elam, attack the people! Media, surround the city and attack it! I will bring an end to the pain the city causes.

Isaiah 26:11

Lord, you are ready to punish those people, but they do not see that. Show them your strong love for your people. Then those who are evil will be ashamed. Burn them in the fire you have prepared for your enemies.

Isaiah 33:1

How terrible it will be for you who destroy others but have not been destroyed yet. How terrible it will be for you, traitor, whom no one has turned against yet. When you stop destroying, others will destroy you. When you stop turning against others, they will turn against you.

Isaiah 42:25

So he became very angry with us and brought terrible wars against us. It was as if the people of Israel had fire all around them, but they didn’t know what was happening. It was as if they were burning, but they didn’t pay any attention.

Isaiah 46:8

“Remember this, and do not forget it! Think about these things, you who turn against God.

Isaiah 47:11

But troubles will come to you, and you will not know how to stop them. Disaster will fall on you, and you will not be able to keep it away. You will be destroyed quickly; you will not even see it coming.

Isaiah 48:4

I knew you were stubborn; your neck was like an iron muscle, and your head was like bronze.

Isaiah 48:7

These things are happening now, not long ago; you have not heard about them before today. So you cannot say, ‘We already knew about that.’

Isaiah 50:5

The Lord God helps me learn, and I have not turned against him nor stopped following him.

Isaiah 57:4

Of whom are you making fun? Whom are you insulting? At whom do you stick out your tongue? You turn against God, and you are liars.

Jeremiah 3:20

But like a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, family of Israel, you have been unfaithful to me,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:11

The families of Israel and Judah have been completely unfaithful to me,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this message, you foolish people who have no sense. They have eyes, but they don’t really see. They have ears, but they don’t really listen.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom can I speak? Whom can I warn? Who will listen to me? The people of Israel have closed ears, so they cannot hear my warnings. They don’t like the word of the Lord; they don’t want to listen to it!

Hosea 5:7

They have not been true to the Lord; they are children who do not belong to him. So their false worship will destroy them and their land.

Hosea 6:7

But they have broken the agreement as Adam did; they have been unfaithful to me.

Hosea 7:9

Foreign nations have eaten up his strength, but he doesn’t know it. Israel is weak and feeble, like an old man, but he doesn’t know it.

Malachi 2:11

The people of Judah have broken their promises. They have done something God hates in Israel and Jerusalem: The people of Judah did not respect the Temple that the Lord loves, and the men of Judah married women who worship foreign gods.

Ephesians 2:3

In the past all of us lived like them, trying to please our sinful selves and doing all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We should have suffered God’s anger because we were sinful by nature. We were the same as all other people.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the Lord said to Moses, “You will soon die. Then these people will not be loyal to me but will worship the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will leave me, breaking the Agreement I made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:18

I will surely turn away from them then, because they have done wrong and have turned to other gods.