Nehemiah 9:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

You testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly and did not heed Your commandments but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not hear.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You warned them to return to Your law, but they acted arrogantly and did not obey Your commandments. They sinned against Your judgments, which, if a person does, they will live by them. Stubbornly, they turned their backs, stiffened their necks, and would not listen.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearked not unto thy commandments, but sind against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and harded their ck, and would not hear.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments,(which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and testified vnto them, that they shulde turne agayne vnto thy lawe. Notwithstodinge they were proude, and herkened not vnto thy comaundementes, but synned in thy lawes (which a man shulde do, & lyue in them) & turned their shulder awaye, & were styffnecked, & wolde not heare.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And protestedst among them that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy Lawe: but they behaued them selues proudely, and hearkened not vnto thy commaundements, but sinned against thy iudgements ( which a man should doe and liue in them) and pulled away the shoulder, and were stiffenecked, and woulde not heare.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And testifiedst vnto them, that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy lawe: Notwithstanding, they were proude, and hearkened not vnto thy commaundementes, but sinned in thy lawes, which if a man do, he shall lyue in them: and turned the shoulder away, and were stiffenecked, and would not heare.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they -- they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, -- which man doth and hath lived in them -- and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 9:16 : 16 But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.
  • Neh 9:26 : 26 Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against You, cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them back to You, and they performed great provocations.
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
  • Neh 9:10 : 10 You showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his servants, and against all the people of his land. For You knew they acted proudly against them. So You made a name for Yourself, as it is this day.
  • Jer 43:2 : 2 Then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: the LORD our God has not sent you to say, Do not go into Egypt to live there:
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
  • Luke 10:28 : 28 And he said to him, You have answered rightly: this do, and you shall live.
  • Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, that the man who does those things shall live by them.
  • Gal 3:12 : 12 And the law is not of faith, but 'The man who does them shall live in them.'
  • Jas 4:6-9 : 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
  • Jer 44:10 : 10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
  • Jer 44:16-17 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. 17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them.
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
  • Hos 6:5 : 5 Therefore I have cut them down by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land where you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
  • Deut 31:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
  • 2 Kgs 17:13 : 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
  • 2 Chr 24:19 : 19 Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them, but they would not listen.
  • 2 Chr 36:15 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending them, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
  • Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Hear, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness. 17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive.
  • Jer 17:23 : 23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
  • Jer 19:15 : 15 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
  • Jer 25:3-7 : 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that is the twenty-third year, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened. 4 And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, 'Turn now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever: 6 And do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.' 7 Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD; that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own harm.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 9:16-17
    2 verses
    84%

    16But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

    17They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.

  • 30Yet for many years You had patience with them and testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear; therefore, You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

  • Neh 9:26-28
    3 verses
    82%

    26Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against You, cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them back to You, and they performed great provocations.

    27Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who oppressed them. And in the time of their trouble, when they cried to You, You heard from heaven; and according to Your manifold mercies, You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hand of their enemies.

    28But after they had rest, they did evil again before You; therefore You abandoned them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they returned and cried out to You, You heard from heaven, and many times delivered them according to Your mercies.

  • 80%

    13Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

    14Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

    15They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them.

  • 23But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

  • Neh 9:34-35
    2 verses
    78%

    34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

    35For they have not served You in their kingdom, or in the vast and fertile land that You gave them, nor did they turn from their wicked works.

  • 19Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them, but they would not listen.

  • Zech 7:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.

    12Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

  • Jer 11:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

    8Yet they did not obey nor incline their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart. Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not do.

  • 13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • Jer 7:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

    27Therefore you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

  • 23And they came in, and possessed it; but they did not obey your voice, nor walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them:

  • 40However, they did not listen, but acted according to their previous customs.

  • 10They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

  • 24But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • 7We have dealt very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which You commanded Your servant Moses.

  • 4And you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

  • 43So I spoke to you; and you would not listen, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and presumptuously went up into the hill.

  • 10They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • 14But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

  • 10They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

  • 9Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

  • 12because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded, and neither would they listen to them nor do them.

  • 5But they did not listen, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

  • 56Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies:

  • 17Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

  • 3O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  • 5We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments:

  • 33And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • 27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • Dan 9:10-11
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    72%

    10Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.

    11Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even by departing, that they might not obey Your voice; therefore, the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

  • 19Because they have not heeded my words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you would not hear, says the LORD.

  • 13Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, look, it is a stiff-necked people:

  • 10And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen.

  • 7But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted.

  • 21Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

  • 1He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  • 14You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, and commanded them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses Your servant.

  • 15Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

  • 29They joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes;