Isaiah 48:4
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
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Isaiah 48:4
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
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Genesis 32:32
For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.
Job 30:17
The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.
Ezekiel 37:6
And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
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Exodus 7:14
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is unchanged; he will not let the people go.
Exodus 7:23
Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even this to heart.
Exodus 8:15
But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
Exodus 8:32
But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.
Exodus 9:7
And Pharaoh sent and got word that there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. But the heart of Pharaoh was hard and he did not let the people go.
Exodus 9:12
And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
Exodus 14:17
And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen.
Joshua 11:20
For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
1 Samuel 6:6
Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?
Romans 11:25
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
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Exodus 27:2
Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.
1 Kings 1:50
And Adonijah himself was full of fear because of Solomon; and he got up and went to the altar, and put his hands on its horns.
1 Kings 1:51
And they gave Solomon word of it, saying, See, Adonijah goes in such fear of King Solomon, that he has put his hands on the horns of the altar, saying, Let King Solomon first give me his oath that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.
1 Kings 1:52
And Solomon said, If he is seen to be a man of good faith, not a hair of him will be touched; but if any wrongdoing is seen in him, he is to be put to death.
1 Kings 2:21
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.
1 Kings 2:22
Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.
1 Kings 2:23
Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord, saying, May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.
1 Kings 2:24
Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.
Ecclesiastes 8:3
Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
Acts 5:8
And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.
Acts 5:9
But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.
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Deuteronomy 32:7
Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.
Deuteronomy 32:8
When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
Isaiah 41:4
Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.
Isaiah 41:22
Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.
Isaiah 41:26
Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.
Isaiah 42:9
See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.
Isaiah 43:9
Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.
Isaiah 44:8
Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
Isaiah 46:9
Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;
Acts 15:18
Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.
Acts 17:26
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
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Exodus 32:8
Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 32:20
And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.
Joshua 23:14
Now I am about to go the way of all the earth: and you have seen and are certain, all of you, in your hearts and souls, that in all the good things which the Lord said about you, he has kept faith with you; everything has come true for you.
Joshua 23:15
And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you.
1 Kings 21:19
Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
1 Kings 22:38
And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.
2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
Psalms 81:11
But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.
Revelation 2:21
And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.
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Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
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Job 33:14
For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:
Psalms 81:13
If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
Jeremiah 44:5
But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.
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Job 41:24
His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.
Job 41:27
Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.
Daniel 7:19
Then it was my desire to have certain knowledge about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, a cause of great fear, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass; who took his food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping on the rest with his feet;
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Psalms 107:16
The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.
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Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.
Isaiah 9:9
And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
Malachi 3:15
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
Malachi 4:1
For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.
1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
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Proverbs 21:29
The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
Isaiah 3:9
Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.
Jeremiah 6:15
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:12
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;
Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.
Matthew 10:16
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
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Isaiah 28:9
To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?
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Psalms 76:5
Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.
Isaiah 37:7
See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.
Isaiah 37:35
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
Isaiah 37:36
And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
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Job 15:25
Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,
Isaiah 44:25
Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
Isaiah 44:26
Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:
Jeremiah 44:16
As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.
Jeremiah 44:21
The perfumes which you have been burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers and your kings and your rulers and the people of the land, had the Lord no memory of them, and did he not keep them in mind?
Jeremiah 44:22
And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.
Jeremiah 44:23
Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
Revelation 2:22
See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.
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Isaiah 45:1
The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;
Isaiah 45:3
And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
Isaiah 45:4
Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.
Isaiah 48:2
For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
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Isaiah 45:19
I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.
Isaiah 48:16
Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.
John 18:20
Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.
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Isaiah 50:7
For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.
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Jeremiah 6:29
The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
Jeremiah 6:30
They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
Lamentations 4:1
How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
Lamentations 4:2
The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
Ezekiel 22:20
As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.
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Ezekiel 3:4
And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.
Ezekiel 3:5
For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;
Ezekiel 3:6
Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.
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Deuteronomy 9:27
Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin:
Nehemiah 9:28
But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;
Jeremiah 11:10
They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.
Jeremiah 16:11
Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;
Jeremiah 16:12
And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:
Ezekiel 20:13
But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.
Ezekiel 20:16
Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.
Ezekiel 20:21
But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.
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Psalms 32:9
Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...
Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
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Hosea 5:4
Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
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2 Kings 17:4
But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.
Isaiah 21:2
A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.
Jeremiah 3:7
And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.
Jeremiah 3:8
And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
Jeremiah 3:9
So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.
Jeremiah 3:10
But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:11
And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.
Jeremiah 3:20
Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:11
For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.
Hosea 5:7
They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
Hosea 6:7
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
Malachi 2:11
Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.
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Romans 5:20
And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
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Romans 5:21
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Psalms 58:3
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
Psalms 95:9
When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
Psalms 95:10
For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
Amos 6:12
Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?
Matthew 19:8
He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.
Hebrews 3:7
And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,
Hebrews 3:8
Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
Hebrews 4:7
After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,
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Hebrews 12:9
And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
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