And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus 33:3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiffnecked people, lest I consume thee in the way.
Exodus 33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Exodus 33:5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus 33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
Exodus 33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that sought Jehovah went out unto the tent of meeting, which was without the camp.
The verse centers on "jehovah", "said", "moses", "children", "israel", "stiffnecked", "people", and "midst". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "jehovah" and "said", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 4's "And when the people heard these evil..." into verse 6's "And the children of Israel stripped themselves...", so "jehovah" and "said" belong inside that flow. In Exodus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "jehovah" and "said" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.