²⁴ His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.

⁴ Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

³ O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

¹² Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.