For I know how stubborn and obstinate you are. Your necks are as unbending as iron. Your heads are as hard as bronze.

因为我素来知道你是顽梗的，你的颈项是铁的；你的额是铜的。

因为我知道你是顽梗的；你的颈项是铁的，你的额头是铜的。

因为我知道你是顽梗的；你的颈项是铁的，你的额头是铜的。

我知道你顽梗，有铁一般的颈项，铜一般的额头。

因为我知道你是顽固的，你的颈项是铁的，你的额是铜的，

我知道你是顽梗的，你的颈项是铁的，你的额头是铜的，

因為我素來知道你是頑梗的－你的頸項是鐵的；你的額是銅的。

因為我知道你是頑梗的；你的頸項是鐵的，你的額頭是銅的。

因為我知道你是頑梗的；你的頸項是鐵的，你的額頭是銅的。

我知道你頑梗，有鐵一般的頸項，銅一般的額頭。

因為我知道你是頑固的，你的頸項是鐵的，你的額是銅的，

因為我知道你剛愎，你脖子是鐵的肌肉，你的額是銅的，

我知道你是頑梗的，你的頸項是鐵的，你的額頭是銅的，

我素知爾剛愎、爾項乃鐵、爾額乃銅、

我知爾剛愎性成、鐵項銅額、

我知爾乃頑梗、鐵項銅額、

For I knew how stubborn you were; your neck muscles were iron, your forehead was bronze.

I knew how stubborn you were. Your neck muscles were as unbending as iron. Your forehead was as hard as bronze.

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

Because I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is iron and your forehead bronze,

Because I know that you are obstinate, And your neck is an iron tendon And your forehead bronze,

Because I knew that you were obstinate, And your neck was an iron sinew, And your brow bronze,

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Because I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is iron and your forehead bronze,

Because I knew that thou[ art] obstinate, and thy neck[ is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

“ You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you!

Then the Lord said,“ I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be destroyed beyond recovery.

“ Your ancestors refused to listen to this message. They stubbornly turned away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the instructions or the messages that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the Lord of Heaven’s Armies was so angry with them.

Don’t raise your fists in defiance at the heavens or speak with such arrogance.’”

Go up to this land that flows with milk and honey. But I will not travel among you, for you are a stubborn and rebellious people. If I did, I would surely destroy you along the way.”

“ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says:‘ I will bring disaster upon this city and its surrounding towns as I promised, because you have stubbornly refused to listen to me.’”

For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Even now, while I am still alive and am here with you, you have rebelled against the Lord. How much more rebellious will you be after my death!

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, even though he had taken an oath of loyalty in God’s name. Zedekiah was a hard and stubborn man, refusing to turn to the Lord, the God of Israel.

But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

You must warn each other every day, while it is still“ today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.

“ Listen to me, you stubborn people who are so far from doing right.

For the Lord had told Moses to tell them,“ You are a stubborn and rebellious people. If I were to travel with you for even a moment, I would destroy you. Remove your jewelry and fine clothes while I decide what to do with you.”

Therefore, change your hearts and stop being stubborn.

But the Israelites would not listen. They were as stubborn as their ancestors who had refused to believe in the Lord their God.

But when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.

Do not be stubborn, as they were, but submit yourselves to the Lord. Come to his Temple, which he has set apart as holy forever. Worship the Lord your God so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.

Lord, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to be corrected. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.

That’s why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.

“ But our ancestors were proud and stubborn, and they paid no attention to your commands.They refused to obey and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they became stubborn and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. You did not abandon them,

Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.

Then he said,“ Son of man, go to the people of Israel and give them my messages.I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand.No, I am not sending you to people with strange and difficult speech. If I did, they would listen!But the people of Israel won’t listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard hearted and stubborn.But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard hearted as they are.I have made your forehead as hard as the hardest rock! So don’t be afraid of them or fear their angry looks, even though they are rebels.”

But my people have not listened to me or even tried to hear. They have been stubborn and sinful— even worse than their ancestors.

“ But as soon as they were at peace, your people again committed evil in your sight, and once more you let their enemies conquer them. Yet whenever your people turned and cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy, you rescued them many times!