" Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.

I have seen your adulteries And your [lustful] neighings, The lewdness of your harlotry, Your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you still not be made clean?"

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There [is] the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

"[Go up] to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you [are] a stiff-necked people."

For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the children of Israel, 'You [are] a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.' "

Then he said, "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we [are] a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance."

"Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you [are] a stiff-necked people.

" Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.

"Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.

"for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. [If] today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD, then how much more after my death?

"Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves to the LORD; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

They refused to obey, And they were not mindful of Your wonders That You did among them. But they hardened their necks, And in their rebellion They appointed a leader To return to their bondage. But You [are] God, Ready to pardon, Gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, Abundant in kindness, And did not forsake them.

And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation [that] did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

He who is often rebuked, [and] hardens [his] neck, Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Because I knew that you [were] obstinate, And your neck [was] an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,

"But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear.

"Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

" [You] stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers [did,] so [do] you.