Isaiah 46:12

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Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:

From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,

Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands.

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: 'What have we spoken against Thee?'

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

Near have been my wicked pursuers, From Thy law they have been far off.

Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,