Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
New American Standard Bible
And your
And your
King James Version
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Holman Bible
and your neck is iron
and your forehead bronze,
International Standard Version
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and because your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze,
A Conservative Version
Because I knew that thou are obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,
American Standard Version
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Amplified
“Because I know that you are obstinate,
And your neck is an iron tendon
And your brow is bronze [both unyielding],
Bible in Basic English
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
Darby Translation
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,
Julia Smith Translation
From my knowledge that thou wert hard, and thy neck an iron sinew, and thy forehead of brass:
Lexham Expanded Bible
because {I know} that you [are] obstinate, and your neck an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.
Modern King James verseion
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your brow bronze.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Howbeit, I knew that thou art obstinate, and that thy neck hath an iron vein, and thy brow is of brass.
NET Bible
I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.
New Heart English Bible
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
The Emphasized Bible
Because I knew that - Obstinate, thou wast, - And, a sinew of iron, was thy neck, And thy brow, brazen,
Webster
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
World English Bible
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
Youngs Literal Translation
From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,
Themes
Brass » Illustrative of » Obstinate sinners
Iron » Illustrative » Of stubbornness
Resurrection » The lord revealing secrets
Topics
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Qasheh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 48:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Refines Stubborn Israel
3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze; 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to pass I showed it to you: lest you should say, my idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
Cross References
Exodus 32:9
And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know your rebellion, and your stubbornness: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.
2 Chronicles 36:13
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
Proverbs 29:1
He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Exodus 33:3
Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you in the way.
Exodus 33:5
For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, you are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and consume you: therefore now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do unto you.
Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
2 Kings 17:14
Nevertheless they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be you not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16-17
But they and our fathers acted presumptuously, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to your commandments,
Nehemiah 9:28
But after they had rest, they did evil again before you: therefore you left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto you, you heard them from heaven; and many times did you deliver them according to your mercies;
Psalm 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Psalm 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Isaiah 46:12
Hearken unto me, you stubborn of heart, that are far from righteousness:
Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
Jeremiah 19:15
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
Ezekiel 3:4-9
And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Zechariah 7:11-12
But they refused to hearken, and shrugged the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart treasure up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.