9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go xin the midst of us, for it is a ystiff-necked people, and zpardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your ainheritance.”
6 “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a istubborn people.
16 “But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and gstiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 17 They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and happointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.1 But you are a God ready to forgive, igracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
23 mYet nthey did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and oreceive instruction.
51 “You stiff-necked people, iuncircumcised in heart and jears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.