Because I know that (A)you are obstinate,
    and your neck is an iron sinew
    and your forehead brass,

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For I knew how stubborn(A) you were;
    your neck muscles(B) were iron,
    your forehead(C) was bronze.

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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you.

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51 “You stiff-necked people!(A) Your hearts(B) and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

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And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, (A)it is a stiff-necked people.

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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (C)They made their hearts diamond-hard (D)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (E)by his Spirit through (F)the former prophets. (G)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear

11 “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly(A) they turned their backs(B) and covered their ears.(C) 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint(D) and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.(E) So the Lord Almighty was very angry.(F)

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29 (A)He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,
    will suddenly be (B)broken (C)beyond healing.

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29 Whoever remains stiff-necked(A) after many rebukes
    will suddenly be destroyed(B)—without remedy.(C)

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15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, (A)because they have stiffened their neck, (B)refusing to hear my words.”

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15 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster(A) I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked(B) and would not listen(C) to my words.’”

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27 For I know how rebellious and (A)stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, (B)you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death!

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27 For I know how rebellious(A) and stiff-necked(B) you are. If you have been rebellious against the Lord while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!

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And he said to me, (A)“Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them. For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. (B)Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. (C)But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel (D)have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. (E)Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. Like (F)emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. (G)Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”

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He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them.(A) You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language,(B) but to the people of Israel— not to many peoples of obscure speech and strange language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.(C) But the people of Israel are not willing to listen(D) to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.(E) But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.(F) I will make your forehead(G) like the hardest stone, harder than flint.(H) Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.(I)

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do not lift up your horn on high,
    or speak with haughty neck.’”

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Do not lift your horns against heaven;
    do not speak so defiantly.(A)’”

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

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

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For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a (A)stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would (B)consume you. So now (C)take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’”

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For the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people.(A) If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy(B) you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.’”

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(A)Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; (B)but I will not go up among you, (C)lest I consume you on the way, for you are a (D)stiff-necked people.”

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Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey.(A) But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked(B) people and I might destroy(C) you on the way.”

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13 But (A)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by (B)the deceitfulness of sin.

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13 But encourage one another daily,(A) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(B)

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