¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their God.

²⁷ For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

¹² Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

⁷ Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

⁸ Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵ But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

²⁶ yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

¹ He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

²⁴ Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,

³² For all this they still sinned, And didn't believe in his wondrous works.

²² Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.

¹³ He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

³² Yet in this thing you didn't believe Yahweh your God,

⁹ Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and, behold, they are a stiff-necked people.