TSK · Amos 6:12

His wife Jezebel said to him,“You are the king of Israel! Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”

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

LORD, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.

The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.