⁴ And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

⁷ But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

¹⁵ Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.

³ O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

⁴ Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

⁸ Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

²⁶ And so I say to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men.

²⁷ For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

¹⁶ See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

² This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;

³ It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.

¹² Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.

³ So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

²⁹ The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

¹³ And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁸ Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

¹⁴ And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.

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?

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