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.
Compare
- 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.
Read in contextRomans 1:24
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextActs 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?
Read in context2 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,
Read in contextActs 14:16
In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
Read in contextRomans 1:26–27
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Read in contextJeremiah 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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