Isaiah 48:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Because I know that you are stubborn and that your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead bronze,

Cross References

2 Kings 17:14

But they did not listen. They grew as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who had not believed in the Lord, their God.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; stretch out your hands to the Lord and come to his sanctuary that he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord, your God, that he may turn his burning anger from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart rather than return to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 9:28

As soon as they had relief, they would go back to doing evil in your sight. Again you abandoned them to the power of their enemies, who crushed them. Once again they cried out to you, and you heard them from heaven and delivered them according to your mercy, many times over.

Psalm 75:5

So I say to the boastful: “Do not boast!” to the wicked: “Do not raise your horns!

Psalm 78:8

They were not to be like their ancestors, a rebellious and defiant generation, A generation whose heart was not constant, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Exodus 32:9

I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are, continued the Lord to Moses.

Exodus 33:3

to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might consume you on the way.

Exodus 33:5

The Lord spoke to Moses: Speak to the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. Were I to go up in your company even for a moment, I would destroy you. Now off with your ornaments! Let me think what to do with you.

Exodus 9:7

But although Pharaoh found upon inquiry that not even so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites had died, he remained obstinate and would not let the people go. Sixth Plague: The Boils.

Proverbs 29:1

Those stiff-necked in the face of reproof in an instant will be shattered beyond cure.

Isaiah 30:9

For this is a rebellious people, deceitful children, Children who refuse to listen to the instruction of the Lord;

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you fainthearted, far from the victory of justice:

Jeremiah 19:15

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I will bring upon this city all the evil I have spoken against it, because they have become stubborn and have not obeyed my words.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers were withheld, the spring rain did not fall. But because you have a prostitute’s brow, you refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.

Ezekiel 2:4

Their children are bold of face and stubborn of heart—to them I am sending you. You shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart became proud and his spirit hardened by insolence, he was put down from his royal throne and deprived of his glory;

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always oppose the holy Spirit; you are just like your ancestors.

Romans 2:5

By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise therefore the foreskins of your hearts, and be stiff-necked no longer.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I already know how rebellious and stiff-necked you will be. Why, even now, while I am alive among you, you have been rebels against the Lord! How much more, then, after I am dead!

Hebrews 3:13

Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.