Yet they would not listen, but stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not trust in Adonai their God.
Isaiah 48:4 - Tree of Life Version For I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is iron sinew, and your forehead bronze. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because I knew that you were obstinate, and your neck was an iron sinew and your brow was brass, American Standard Version (1901) Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; Common English Bible Because I know that you are stubborn, your neck is made of iron, and your forehead is bronze. 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass. |
Yet they would not listen, but stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not trust in Adonai their God.
Do not stiffen your neck as your fathers did, but reconcile to Adonai, and come to His Temple, which He has consecrated forever, and worship Adonai your God that His burning anger may turn away from you.
He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar who had made him take an oath by God. He also stiffened his neck and hardened his heart so as not to turn to Adonai, the God of Israel.
“But as soon as they were at rest, they returned to doing evil before You. Therefore You abandoned them into the hand of their enemies who ruled over them. When they repented and cried out to You, You heard from heaven, and according to Your compassion You delivered them many times.
I say to the arrogant, ‘No more boasting!’ And to the wicked, ‘Do not be lifting up your horn.’
So they will not be like their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart, whose spirit was not loyal to God.
Adonai said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Head up into a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not move within the midst of you, so that I do not destroy you along the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
Adonai said to Moses, “Say to Bnei-Yisrael, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were going up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Take off your ornaments, so that I may consider what to do to you.’”
When Pharaoh inquired, there was not so much as one of the cattle of Bnei-Yisrael dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.
One who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed— without remedy.
For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to obey the Torah of Adonai.
thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “I am about to bring on this city and on all her towns the whole disaster that I pronounced against it, because they stiffened their neck, rather than hearing My words.”
Therefore showers have been withheld and there has been no spring rain. You have a harlot’s brazen look; you refuse to be ashamed.
Adonai, do Your eyes not look for faithfulness? You struck them, but they did not grieve. You disciplined them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone. They refused to return.
they did not listen to Me or pay attention. Rather, they stiffened their neck, doing more evil than their fathers.
The children have hard faces and stubborn hearts. I am sending you to them, and you are to tell them, ‘Thus says Adonai Elohim.’
But when his heart became haughty and his spirit hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
“O you stiff-necked people! You uncircumcised of heart and ears! You always resist the Ruach ha-Kodesh; just as your fathers did, you do as well.
But by your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.
“Circumcise the foreskin of your heart therefore, and do not be stiff-necked anymore.
for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Indeed, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Adonai—how much more then after my death?
But encourage one another day by day—as long as it is called “Today”—so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.