Parallel Verses

Amplified


‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”

New American Standard Bible

Do not lift up your horn on high,
Do not speak with insolent pride.’”

King James Version

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

Holman Bible

Do not lift up your horn against heaven
or speak arrogantly.’”

International Standard Version

Don't use your strength to fight heaven or speak from stubborn arrogance."

A Conservative Version

Lift not up your horn on high. Speak not with a stiff neck.

American Standard Version

Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.

Bible in Basic English

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

Darby Translation

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a stiff neck.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye shall not lift up your horn to elevation: ye will speak with an impudent neck.

King James 2000

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not lift up high your horn. Do [not] speak with {arrogant pride}.'"

Modern King James verseion

do not lift up your horn on high; nor speak with a stiff neck.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Set not up your horn on high, and speak not with a stiff neck."

NET Bible

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

New Heart English Bible

Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with a stiff neck."

The Emphasized Bible

Do not lift up on high your horn, Nor speak of the Rock, with arrogance;

Webster

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

World English Bible

Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."

Youngs Literal Translation

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

References

Hastings

Context Readings

God Judges The Wicked

4
“I said to the arrogant, ‘Do not boast;’
And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn [of self-glorification].
5 
‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”
6
For not from the east, nor from the west,
Nor from the desert comes exaltation.

Cross References

Exodus 32:9

The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people.

Deuteronomy 31:27

For I know your rebellion and contention and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death?

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now do not stiffen your neck [becoming obstinate] like your fathers, but yield to the Lord and come to His sanctuary which He has sanctified and set apart forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that His burning anger will turn away from you.

Isaiah 48:4


“Because I know that you are obstinate,
And your neck is an iron tendon
And your brow is bronze [both unyielding],

Ezekiel 2:4

I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked and stubborn people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. You are doing just as your fathers did.

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