Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou {art} a stiffnecked people.

Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

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

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen {it}, saith the LORD.

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there {is} the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I {am} God, {even} thy God.

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in {his} wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger {from his right}, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud}

I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, {and} thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when {shall it} once {be}? {when...: Heb. after when yet?}

And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it {is} a stiffnecked people:

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy {them}.

Wherefore then {serveth} the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; {and it was} ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou {art} a stiffnecked people.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation {that} set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers {did}, so {do} ye.

But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,