The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to po
But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive
Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detes
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers