Bible Verses About Obduracy

And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers--rising early and sending--for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,

and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people--till there is no healing.

Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart--they! And they have not known My ways:'

Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest--!'

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.