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King James Version

Psalms 81:12

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Lust;   Reprobacy;   Self-Delusion;   Thompson Chain Reference - Error;   Forsaken;   Sin;   Sin's;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Sexual Activities;   Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Self-Delusion;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Music and Musical Instruments;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gittith;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Astrology;   Go;   Imagination;   Lust;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnes of their heart, & they haue walked in their owne cousels.
Christian Standard Bible®
So I gave them over to their stubborn heartsto follow their own plans.
Hebrew Names Version
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, That they might walk in their own counsels.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I let them go their own stubborn way and do whatever they wanted.
Amplified Bible
"So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.
American Standard Version
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
Contemporary English Version
So I let you be stubborn and keep on following your own advice.
Complete Jewish Bible
"But my people did not listen to my voice; Isra'el would have none of me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But My people hearkened not to My voice; and Israel would none of Me.
King James Version (1611)
So I gaue them vp vnto their owne hearts lust: and they walked in in their owne counsels.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways.
English Revised Version
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.
Berean Standard Bible
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
Lexham English Bible
So I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels.
Literal Translation
So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts; they walked in their own conceits.
New Century Version
So I let them go their stubborn way and follow their own advice.
New English Translation
I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
New King James Version
So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.
New Living Translation
So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.
New Life Bible
So I let them follow the desires of their sinful hearts. They followed their own plans.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart, - They might walk in their own counsels!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(80-13) So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.
George Lamsa Translation
So they walked according to the desires of their own hearts and according to their own counsels.
Good News Translation
So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.
New American Standard Bible
"So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk by their own plans.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So I gaue them vp vnto the wicked cogitations of their owne heartes: and I did let them folowe their owne imaginations.
New Revised Standard
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Darby Translation
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.
Young's Literal Translation
And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk 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.
Revised Standard Version
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Update Bible Version
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
Webster's Bible Translation
So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: [and] they walked 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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But my people wolde not heare my voyce, & Israel wolde not obeye me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in their own devices.
Legacy Standard Bible
So I released them over to the stubbornness of their heart,That they would walk in their own devices.

Contextual Overview

8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I gave: Genesis 6:3, Acts 7:42, Acts 14:16, Romans 1:24, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:27, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11

their own hearts' lust: or, the hardness of their hearts, or imaginations

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

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:6 - sinning Exodus 9:12 - General Leviticus 26:3 - General Numbers 22:20 - If the men Numbers 22:35 - Go Deuteronomy 32:28 - General 1 Samuel 8:7 - Hearken 1 Samuel 12:14 - If ye will 1 Kings 14:16 - he shall give Israel 2 Chronicles 25:20 - it came of God Psalms 1:1 - walketh Psalms 69:27 - Add Psalms 106:43 - with their Proverbs 2:19 - None Proverbs 5:23 - in the Proverbs 8:33 - refuse Proverbs 22:14 - abhorred Ecclesiastes 11:9 - walk Isaiah 44:18 - for he hath Isaiah 65:2 - after Isaiah 66:4 - will choose Jeremiah 16:13 - and Ezekiel 14:9 - if the Ezekiel 20:25 - I gave Ezekiel 20:39 - Go ye Hosea 4:17 - let Hosea 9:10 - and their Amos 4:5 - for Malachi 2:2 - ye will not hear Matthew 12:44 - he findeth Matthew 21:32 - repented Mark 8:13 - General Luke 11:25 - he findeth Luke 11:34 - but Acts 28:26 - Hearing Romans 1:21 - but became 2 Thessalonians 2:11 - for Revelation 22:11 - that is unjust

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust,.... Sometimes God gave them up, when they sinned, into the hands of the Moabites, or Ammonites, or Philistines, or other neighbouring nations, for their chastisement; but to be delivered up unto their own hearts' lust is worse than that; nay, than to be delivered to Satan: salvation may be the consequence of that, but damnation of this; and yet it is a righteous judgment; for as men like not to retain God in their knowledge, it is but just with him to give them up to vile affections, to a reprobate mind, to do things not convenient, Romans 1:24 there is nothing men are more desirous of than to have their hearts' lusts; and there is no greater judgment can befall them than to be left to the power of them, which must unavoidably issue in their ruin here and hereafter: and they walked in their own counsels; which were bad; after the imagination of their own evil hearts, and not after the counsels and directions of God in his word, and by his servants.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust - Margin, as in Hebrew, to the hardness of their own hearts. Literally, “I sent them, or I dismissed them, to the hardness of their hearts.” I suffered them to have what, in the hardness of their hearts they desired, or what their hard and rebellious hearts prompted them to desire: I indulged them in their wishes. I gave them what they asked, and left them to themselves to work out the problem about success and happiness in their own way - to let them see what must be the result of forsaking the true God. The world - and the church too - has been often suffered to make this experiment.

And they walked in their own counsels - As they thought wise and best. Compare Acts 7:42; Acts 14:16; Romans 1:24; Psalms 78:26-37.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 81:12. Unto their own hearts' lust — To the obstinate wickedness of their heart.

In their own counsels. — God withdrew his restraining grace, which they had abused; and then they fulfilled the inventions of their wicked hearts.


 
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