But they and our fathers acted proudly and hardened their necks, and did not listen to Your commandments.

and testified against them that You might bring them again to Your Law. But they acted proudly and did not listen to Your commandments, but sinned against Your judgments (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Shall we then listen to you, to do all this great evil, to sin against our God in living with foreign women?