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 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.

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

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

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

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;

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.