Isaiah 48:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Kings 17:14

They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not now be stiff-necked as your ancestors were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, so 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 again did evil before you, and you abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them, yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you rescued them according to your 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 ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Exodus 32:9

The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are.

Exodus 33:3

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

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, and I will decide what to do to you.’ ”

Exodus 9:7

Pharaoh inquired and found that not even one of the Israelites’ livestock had died. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he would not let the people go.

Proverbs 29:1

One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Isaiah 30:9

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

Isaiah 46:12

Listen 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: I am now bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks, refusing to hear my words.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come, yet you have the forehead of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 7:26

yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.

Ezekiel 2:4

The descendants are impudent and stubborn. I am sending 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 acted proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was stripped from him.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

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, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are. If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death!

Hebrews 3:13

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