Psalm 81:12 “So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices…”

Psalm 81:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

World English Bible

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

American Standard Version

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

Geneva Bible 1599

So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnesse of their heart, and they haue walked in their owne cousels.

Darby Translation

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.

Young's Literal Translation

And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

Bible in Basic English

So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

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Cross references

“I gave”

Romans 1:24 Acts 7:42 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11 Acts 14:16 Genesis 6:3 Romans 1:26

Romans 1:24 · BSB

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

Acts 7:42 · BSB

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 Is…

2 Thessalonians 2:9–11 · BSB

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

Acts 14:16 · BSB

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

Genesis 6:3 · BSB

So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

Romans 1:26 · BSB

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

“they walked”

Jeremiah 7:24 Isaiah 30:1 Exodus 11:9 Jeremiah 44:16 Jeremiah 44:17

Jeremiah 7:24 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 30:1 · BSB

“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.

Exodus 11:9 · BSB

The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

Jeremiah 44:16 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 44:17 · BSB

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the str…

Also

Job 8:4

Job 8:4 · BSB

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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