14  Notwithstanding they would not hear, but ^bhardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.

  14  But behold, the Jews were a ^astiffnecked people; and they despised the words of plainness, and killed the prophets, and sought for things that they could not understand. Wherefore, because of their blindness, which blindness came by looking beyond the mark, they must needs fall; for God hath taken away his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things which they cannot understand, because they desired it. And because they desired it God hath done it, that they may stumble.