Psalms 81:12

10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

11 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

13 If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

14 how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
KJV
So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
WEB
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
ASV
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
DARBY
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
BLB
And I sent them away in the stubbornness of their hearts, to walk by their own counsels.
ÅB
Så lot jeg dem fare i sitt hjertes hårdhet, for at de skulle vandre i sine egne onde råd.
OTB
Så lot jeg dem følge sitt harde hjerte,
Til å følge sine egne planer.
B1930
Så lot jeg dem fare i sitt hjertes hårdhet, forat de skulde vandre i sine egne onde råd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 7:24

    Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

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  • Romans 1:24

    Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

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  • Isaiah 30:1

    “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

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  • Acts 7:42

    But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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  • 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11

    The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,

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  • Acts 14:16

    In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.

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  • Romans 1:26–27

    For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

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  • Jeremiah 44:16–17

    “As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

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