(A)For they are [a]impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’

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  1. Ezekiel 2:4 Lit. stiff-faced and hard-hearted sons

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, (A)because they will not listen to Me; (B)for all the house of Israel are [a]impudent and hard-hearted.

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  1. Ezekiel 3:7 Lit. strong of forehead

15 Were they (A)ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No! They were not at all ashamed;
Nor did they know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

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O Lord, are not (A)Your eyes on the truth?
You have (B)stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But (C)they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.

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Because I knew that you were [a]obstinate,
And (A)your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,

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  1. Isaiah 48:4 Heb. hard

“Do not harden your hearts, as in the [a]rebellion,
(A)As in the day of [b]trial in the wilderness,

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  1. Psalm 95:8 Or Meribah, lit. Strife, Contention
  2. Psalm 95:8 Or Massah, lit. Trial, Testing

26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am (A)innocent[a] of the blood of all men. 27 For I have not [b]shunned to declare to you (B)the whole counsel of God.

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  1. Acts 20:26 Lit. clean
  2. Acts 20:27 avoided declaring

Persecutions Are Coming(A)

16 (B)“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. (C)Therefore be wise as serpents and (D)harmless[a] as doves.

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  1. Matthew 10:16 innocent

“Thus says the Lord: ‘Stand in (A)the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord’s house, (B)all the words that I command you to speak to them. (C)Do not diminish a word. (D)Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may (E)relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.’

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12 Were they (A)ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No! They were not at all ashamed,
Nor did they know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
In the time of their punishment
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

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Therefore the (A)showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a (B)harlot’s forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.

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29 A wicked man hardens his face,
But as for the upright, he [a]establishes his way.

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  1. Proverbs 21:29 Qr., LXX understands

13 And he also (A)rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God; but he (B)stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord God of Israel.

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Now do not be (A)stiff-necked,[a] as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, (B)that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 30:8 Rebellious

14 And Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, (A)whatever the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”

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27 (A)for I know your rebellion and your (B)stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord, then how much more after my death?

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16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your (A)heart, and be (B)stiff-necked[a] no longer.

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  1. Deuteronomy 10:16 rebellious

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