Now do not stiffen your necks like your fathers. Give a hand to Jehovah and come to His sanctuary that He has sanctified forever; and serve Jehovah your God. And the anger of His face will turn away from you.
And also he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; and he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to Jehovah the God of Israel.
But after a rest to them, they turned to doing evil before You. And You left them in the hand of their enemies, and they ruled over them. But they turned back and cried to You, and You heard them from Heaven, and You saved them according to Your mercies many times.
And they shall not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not its heart; yea, whose spirit was not faithful with God.
And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, You are a stiffnecked people; in one instant I will go up among you and I will consume you. And now lay off from you your ornaments, that I may know what I shall do to you.
So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring to this city, and on all its towns, all the evil that I have spoken against it, because they have stiffened their necks in order not to hear My words.
And the showers are withheld, and there has been no latter rain. And the forehead of a woman, one doing adultery, was to you; you refused to be ashamed.
O Jehovah, Your eyes, are they not for faithfulness? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You consumed them, yet they refused to take correction. They made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit grew hard to act proudly, he was cast down from the throne of his kingdom, and his majesty was taken away from him.
But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, you are treasuring up to yourself wrath in the day of wrath, and revelation of a righteous judgment of God.
For I have known your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day you have been rebellious against Jehovah. And how much more after my death!