TSK · Isaiah 48:8

You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods.

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.

I have received a distressing message:“The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!”

For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers).

You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”

I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did.

For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,”says the LORD.

I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

They have committed treason against the LORD, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.

Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god!

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,