¹³ And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

¹⁶ Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

⁶ Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

¹⁴ And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

²⁷ For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?

⁵ And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

¹⁰ In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

²⁷ I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

¹¹ Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

⁷ Give ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God.

⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.

¹⁰ Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

²¹ I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

⁵ And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.