Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
Parallel translations
- KJV Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
- BSB Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
- NKJV Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
- NASB Behold, I have made your face just as hard as their faces, and your forehead just as hard as their foreheads.
- NLT But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
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- Jer 1:18For, behold, I have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
- Acts 7:51–56“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- Exod 4:15–16You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
- Heb 11:32–37What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
- 1 Kgs 21:20Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- Mic 3:8But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
- Exod 11:4–8Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,
- Isa 50:7For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
- Heb 11:27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
- Jer 15:20I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.
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