Isaiah 48:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

2 Kings 17:14

But they did not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks to be like the neck of their fathers, who were not willing to obey the Lord, their God.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not choose to harden your necks, as your fathers did. Surrender to the hands of the Lord. And go to his Sanctuary, which he has sanctified unto eternity. Serve the Lord, the God of your fathers, and the fury of his wrath will be turned away from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

Also, he withdrew from king Nebuchadnezzar, who had bound him by an oath to God, and he hardened his own neck and his own heart, so that he did not return to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 9:28

But after they had rested, they turned back, so that they did evil in your sight. And you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, and they possessed them. And they converted, and they cried out to you. And from heaven you heeded them, and you freed them many times, by your mercies.

Psalm 75:5

You illuminate wondrously from the mountains of eternity.

Psalm 78:8

Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor.

Exodus 32:9

And again, the Lord said to Moses: "I discern that this people is stiff-necked.

Exodus 33:3

and so that you may enter into a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up with you, since you are a stiff-necked people, lest perhaps I may destroy you on the way."

Exodus 33:5

And the Lord said to Moses: "Say to the sons of Israel: You are a stiff-necked people. I should at once go up into your midst and destroy you. Now immediately put aside your ornaments, so that I may know what to do to you."

Exodus 9:7

And Pharaoh sent to see; neither was there anything dead of those things that Israel possessed. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not release the people.

Proverbs 29:1

The man who, with a stiff neck, treats the one who corrects him with contempt will be suddenly overwhelmed to his own destruction, and reason shall not follow him.

Isaiah 30:9

For they are a people who provoke to wrath, and they are lying sons, sons unwilling to listen to the law of God.

Isaiah 46:12

Hear me, you who are hard of heart, who are far from justice!

Jeremiah 19:15

"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will lead over this community, and over all its cities, all the evils that I have spoken against it. For they have hardened their necks, so that they would not heed my words."

Jeremiah 3:3

For this reason, the rain showers were withheld, and there were no late season rains. You made your face like that of a promiscuous woman; you were not willing to blush.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, your eyes look with favor upon faith. You have struck them, and they have not grieved. You have bruised them, and they have refused to accept discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, and they are not willing to return.

Jeremiah 7:26

But they have not listened to me, nor have they inclined their ear. Instead, they have stiffened their neck, and they have behaved worse than their fathers did.

Ezekiel 2:4

And those to whom I am sending you are sons with a hard face and an unyielding heart. 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 in arrogance, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and his glory was taken away.

Acts 7:51

Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you ever resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers did, so also do you do.

Romans 2:5

But in accord with your hard and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself, unto the day of wrath and of revelation by the just judgment of God.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and no longer stiffen your neck.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know your contentiousness and your very stiff neck. Even while I am still living and entering with you, you have always acted with contention against the Lord. How much more so when I will be dead?

Hebrews 3:13

Instead, exhort one another every day, while it is still called 'today,' so that none of you may become hardened through the falseness of sin.