“ But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

“但我们的列祖行事狂傲，硬着颈项不听从你的诫命；

“‘但我们的祖先行事狂傲，硬着颈项不听从你的诫命。

“‘但我们的祖先行事狂傲，硬着颈项不听从你的诫命。

但我们的祖先行事狂傲，顽固不化，不肯听从你的诫命。

但是我们的列祖狂妄自大，硬着颈项，不听从你的命令。

「但我們的列祖行事狂傲，硬着頸項不聽從你的誡命；

「『但我們的祖先行事狂傲，硬着頸項不聽從你的誡命。

「『但我們的祖先行事狂傲，硬着頸項不聽從你的誡命。

但我們的祖先行事狂傲，頑固不化，不肯聽從你的誡命。

但是我們的列祖狂妄自大，硬著頸項，不聽從你的命令。

『但是他們、我們的祖宗、狂妄傲慢，硬着脖子，不聽你的誡命，

惟我列祖、驕矜強項、不聽爾命、

當時之民、即我列祖、妄自矜詡、強項不馴、不聽從爾命、

當時之民、即我列祖、狂妄強項、不聽主命、

“ But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff- necked, and they did not obey your commands.

“ But our people before us became proud and stubborn. They didn’t obey your commands.

“ But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

“ But our ancestors were proud and stubborn, and they paid no attention to your commands.

But our ancestors acted arrogantly; they became stiff-necked and did not listen to your commands.

“ But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly; They became stubborn and would not listen to Your commandments.

“ But they and our fathers acted proudly, Hardened their necks, And did not heed Your commandments.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

But our ancestors acted arrogantly; they became stiff-necked and did not listen to Your commands.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

“ But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the LORD; you will be even more rebellious after my death!

You performed awesome signs against Pharaoh, against his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that the Egyptians had acted presumptuously against them. You made for yourself a name that is celebrated to this day.

And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances– those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.

But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries.”

“ You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

“ The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says,‘ I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused to pay any attention to what I have said!’”

Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they retreated in the day of battle.They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.They forgot what he had done, the amazing things he had shown them.He did amazing things in the sight of their ancestors, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert.They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.They insulted God, saying,“ Is God really able to give us food in the wilderness?Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?”When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them.He gave a command to the clouds above, and opened the doors in the sky.He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.He brought the east wind through the sky, and by his strength led forth the south wind.He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.They ate until they were stuffed; he gave them what they desired.They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.They remembered that God was their protector, and that the sovereign God was their deliverer.But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him.They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the desert!They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.They did not remember what he had done, how he delivered them from the enemy,when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt, and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.He guided them safely along, while the sea covered their enemies.He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.Yet they challenged and defied the sovereign God, and did not obey his commands.They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.He abandoned the sanctuary at Shiloh, the tent where he lived among men.He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy.He delivered his people over to the sword, and was angry with his chosen nation.Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins remained unmarried.Their priests fell by the sword, but their widows did not weep.But then the Lord awoke from his sleep; he was like a warrior in a drunken rage.He drove his enemies back; he made them a permanent target for insults.He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above; as secure as the earth, which he established permanently.He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.David cared for them with pure motives; he led them with skill.

But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

He says,“ Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘ These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

As it says,“ Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return to the LORD God of Israel.

You people of this generation, listen to what the LORD says.“ Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say,‘ We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?’

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.

Then the LORD said to Moses:“ I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

But they rebelled and offended his holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called“ Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the LORD your God.You complained among yourselves privately and said,“ Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there.”So I responded to you,“ Do not be terrified of them!The LORD your God is about to go ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egyptand in the desert, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”However, through all this you did not have confidence in the LORD your God,the one who was constantly going before you to find places for you to set up camp. He appeared by fire at night and cloud by day, to show you the way you ought to go.

Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people!

And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you,“ Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the LORD your God and would neither believe nor obey him.You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.

The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

He said,“ If you will diligently obey the LORD your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the LORD, am your healer.”

I said,‘ Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!

Moreover, he said to me,“ I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!