Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they hearkened not unto me,.... Speaking by the prophets:

nor inclined their ear; to what was said to them; would not listen to it, and much less obey what was commanded them:

but hardened…

God, having shown the people that the temple would not protect them while they polluted it with their wickedness, here shows them that their sacrifices would not atone for them, nor be accepted, while…

made their neck stiff Cp. for the phrase ch. Jer 19:15; 2Ki 17:14; Neh 9:16-17; Neh 9:29; Pro 29:1.