Zechariah 7:12

New American Bible - revised edition

And they made their hearts as hard as diamond so as not to hear the instruction and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit through the earlier prophets. So great anger came from the Lord of hosts:

Cross References

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.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s anger against his people blazed up beyond remedy.

Job 9:4

God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained whole?

Psalm 50:17

You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!

Exodus 7:13

Pharaoh, however, hardened his heart and would not listen to them, just as the Lord had foretold. First Plague: Water Turned into Blood.

Isaiah 46:12

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

Isaiah 48:4

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

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people sluggish, dull their ears and close their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and their heart understand, and they turn and be healed.

Isaiah 65:12

You I will destine for the sword; you shall all bow down for slaughter; Because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen, But did what is evil in my sight and things I do not delight in, you chose,

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, Engraved with a diamond point upon the tablets of their hearts, And the horns of their altars,

Jeremiah 17:23

though they did not listen or give ear, but stiffened their necks so they could not hear or take correction.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah condemn him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, so that the Lord had a change of heart regarding the evil he had spoken against them? We, however, are about to do great evil against ourselves.” The Fate of Uriah.

Jeremiah 42:21

Today I have told you, but you have not listened to the voice of the Lord your God, in anything that he has sent me to tell you.

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 7:20

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: my anger and my wrath will pour out upon this place, upon human being and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruits of the earth; it will burn and not be quenched.

Ezekiel 11:19

And I will give them another heart and a new spirit I will put within them. From their bodies I will remove the hearts of stone, and give them hearts of flesh,

Ezekiel 14:5

in order to catch the hearts of the house of Israel, estranged from me because of all their idols.

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.

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Zechariah 1:2

The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.

Zechariah 7:7

Are these not the words which the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding cities were inhabited and secure, when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?

Matthew 13:15

Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, they have closed their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.’ The Privilege of Discipleship.

Mark 4:12

so that ‘they may look and see but not perceive, and hear and listen but not understand, in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.’”

Luke 8:12

Those on the path are the ones who have heard, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved.

Acts 28:27

Gross is the heart of this people; they will not hear with their ears; they have closed their eyes, so they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.’

2 Peter 1:21

for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God.