But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken to you; for they will not hearken to Me; for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted.

Therefore you shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and you shall not stiffen your neck.

For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you not also be so after my death?

And now harden not your hearts, as your fathers [did]; give glory to the Lord God, and enter into His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, and He shall turn away [His] fierce anger from you.

in that he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, which he adjured him by God [not to do]; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.

Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of trial in the wilderness;

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

And you retained many shepherds for a stumbling block to yourself. You had a whore's face; you became shameless toward all.

O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who were [truly] ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace; therefore shall they [utterly] fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, says the Lord.

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"Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

An ungodly man hardens his face, but the upright man himself understands his ways.

And Micaiah said, [As] the Lord lives, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and you shall declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded you to speak to them; do not leave out one word.

Perhaps they will listen, and turn from their evil ways; then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

Therefore I testify to you this very day, that I am innocent of all blood.

For I did not draw back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.