Isaiah 48:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Because I knew that you were obstinate, and your neck was an iron sinew and your brow was brass,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Common English Bible

⁴ Because I know that you are stubborn, your neck is made of iron, and your forehead is bronze.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For I knew that you are stubborn, and that your neck is like an iron sinew, and that your forehead is like brass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.

Isaiah 48:4 Cross References

2 Kings 17:14

But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 9:28

But after they had rest they did evil again before thee, and thou didst abandon them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them; yet when they turned and cried to thee thou didst hear from heaven, and many times thou didst deliver them according to thy mercies.

Psalm 75:5

do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with insolent neck.”

Psalm 78:8

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Exodus 32:9

And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;

Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.’ ”

Exodus 9:7

And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the cattle of the Israelites was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

Proverbs 29:1

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Isaiah 30:9

For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the Lord;

Isaiah 46:12

“Hearken to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

Jeremiah 19:15

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot's brow, you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do not thy eyes look for truth? Thou hast smitten them, but they felt no anguish; thou hast consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 7:26

yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

Ezekiel 2:4

The people also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them; and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him;

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are; behold, while I am yet alive with you, today you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more after my death!

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.