But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God.

Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the Lord. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God’s name. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart and would not turn to the Lord, the God of Israel.

“But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and they did not obey your commands.

They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,

“You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’ Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.

All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

In his great power God becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment.

“Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?

Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.

Psalm 69

For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David.

Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.

They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,

They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck.

Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.

Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

Your neck is like the tower of David, built with courses of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.

You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.

The Lord says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.

In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,

and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel!”