But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

"I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know."

And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it [is] a stiff-necked people!

"Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation."

"Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I [am] God, your God!

"Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen [it,"] says the LORD.

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.

And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien -- Because they do not fear Me," Says the LORD of hosts.

"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.

"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?

Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.