Isaiah 48:4
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
KJV
Scivi enim quia durus es tu, et nervus ferreus cervix tua, et frons tua ærea.
Vulgate
γινώσκω ὅτι σκληρὸς εἶ, καὶ νεῦρον σιδηροῦν ὁ τράχηλός σου, καὶ τὸ μέτωπόν σου χαλκοῦν.
LXX
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
ASV
מִ/דַּעְתִּ֕/י כִּ֥י קָשֶׁ֖ה אָ֑תָּה וְ/גִ֤יד בַּרְזֶל֙ עָרְפֶּ֔/ךָ וּ/מִצְחֲ/ךָ֖ נְחוּשָֽׁה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
בַּרְזֶל֙
brzl
noun · 76×
גִּדִ֜ים
gdym
noun · 5×
דָֽעַת
d't
verb · 93×
וֹ
v
noun · 13×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נְחוּשָֽׁה
nchvshh
noun · 10×
עֹ֖רֶף
'rp
noun · 33×
קְשֵׁה
qshh
adjective · 36×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Chr 30:8 — Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness o
- 2Chr 36:13 — And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
- 2Kgs 17:14 — 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.
- Acts 7:51 — Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- Acts 7:51 — Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- Amos 6:12 — Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
- Dan 5:20 — But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
- Deut 2:30 — But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
- Deut 10:16 — Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
- Deut 31:27 — 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?
- Exod 32:9 — And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Exod 32:9 — And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Exod 33:3 — Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
- Exod 33:5 — For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments
- Exod 34:9 — And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritan
- Ezek 2:4 — For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezek 3:4 — And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
- Ezek 11:19 — And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
- Heb 3:13 — But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
- Isa 43:12 — I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
- Isa 46:12 — Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
- Isa 46:12 — Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
- Jer 3:3 — Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Jer 5:3 — O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder t
- Jer 7:26 — Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
- Jer 17:23 — But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
- Jer 19:15 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that
- Neh 9:16 — But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
- Neh 9:28 — But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee
- Prov 29:1 — He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Prov 29:1 — He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Ps 75:5 — Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
- Ps 75:5 — Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
- Ps 78:8 — 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.
- Rom 2:5 — But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
- Rom 2:5 — But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
- Zech 7:11 — But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.