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26 Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.(A)

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Chapter 29

Those stiff-necked in the face of reproof
    in an instant will be shattered beyond cure.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 29:1 The idiom “to stiffen one’s neck” occurs in a context of not heeding a message in Dt 10:16 and 2 Kgs 17:14. To stiffen one’s neck in this sense risks having it broken, as in 1 Sm 4:18.