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Psalms 81:12

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

KJV

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

ASV

וְ/לֹא שָׁמַ֣ע עַמִּ֣/י לְ/קוֹלִ֑/י וְ֝/יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לֹא אָ֥בָה לִֽ/י

Hebrew

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

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָבָ֖ה
'bh
verb · 54×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ק֣וֹל
qvl
noun · 503×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 12:14 — If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD
  • 2Thess 2:9 — Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
  • Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of f
  • Acts 14:16 — Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
  • Acts 14:16 — Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
  • Amos 4:5 — And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Deut 32:28 — For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
  • Eccl 11:9 — Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things
  • Ezek 20:25 — Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
  • Gen 6:3 — And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
  • Gen 20:6 — And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
  • Hos 4:17 — Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
  • Isa 30:1 — Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
  • Isa 44:18 — They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
  • Isa 66:4 — I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in
  • Jer 7:24 — But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Jer 16:13 — Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
  • Jer 44:16 — As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
  • Job 8:4 — If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
  • Lev 26:3 — If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
  • Mark 8:13 — And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.
  • Prov 2:19 — None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
  • Prov 5:23 — He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
  • Ps 1:1 — Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
  • Ps 106:43 — Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
  • Rev 22:11 — He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
  • Rom 1:21 — Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
  • Rom 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
  • Rom 1:26 — For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: