Verse 21
and unto Israel He saith, `All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'
Referenced Verses
- Jer 35:15 : 15 And I send unto you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way, and amend your doings, yea, ye do not walk after other gods, to serve them, and dwell ye on the ground that I have given to you and to your fathers; and ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto Me.
- Isa 65:2-5 : 2 I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts. 3 The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks: 4 Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things -- their vessels. 5 Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These `are' a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.
- Jer 25:4 : 4 And Jehovah hath sent unto you all His servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear, saying:
- Deut 9:13 : 13 `And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it `is';
- Deut 31:27 : 27 for I -- I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.
- 1 Sam 8:7-8 : 7 And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them. 8 According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other gods -- so they are doing also to thee.
- Neh 9:26 : 26 `And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,
- Prov 1:24 : 24 Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
- Jer 44:4-6 : 4 `And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated -- 5 and they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, to turn back from their wickedness, not to make perfume to other gods, 6 and poured out is My fury, and Mine anger, and it burneth in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and they are for a waste, for a desolation, as `at' this day.
- Matt 20:1-9 : 1 `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard, 2 and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 `And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle, 4 and to these he said, Go ye -- also ye -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you; 5 and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner. 6 And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle? 7 they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye -- ye also -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive. 8 `And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first. 9 And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary. 10 `And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary, 11 and having received `it', they were murmuring against the householder, saying, 12 that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat. 13 `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me? 14 take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee; 15 is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?
- Matt 21:33-43 : 33 `Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. 34 `And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it, 35 and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. 36 `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner. 37 `And at last he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son; 38 and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance; 39 and having taken him, they cast `him' out of the vineyard, and killed him; 40 whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?' 41 They say to him, `Evil men -- he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.' 42 Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes. 43 `Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;
- Matt 22:3-7 : 3 and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come. 4 `Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things `are' ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts; 5 and they, having disregarded `it', went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise; 6 and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay `them'. 7 `And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;
- Matt 23:34-37 : 34 `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: 36 verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37 `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.
- Luke 24:47 : 47 and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:
- Acts 7:51-52 : 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye; 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,
- Acts 13:46-47 : 46 And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations; 47 for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations -- for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'
- 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them -- to the end!
- 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;