Psalms 81:12 · KJV
“So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: {and} they walked in their own counsels. {unto...: or, to the hardness of their hearts, or, imagination}”
— Psalms 81:12
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, {and} Israel had walked in my ways!
Psalms 81 — Context
I {am} the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: {and} they walked in their own counsels. {unto...: or, to the hardness of their hearts, or, imagination}
13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, {and} Israel had walked in my ways!
14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Cross References
Jeremiah 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. {imagination: or, stubbornness} {went: Heb. were}
Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Isaiah 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:
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} forty years in the wilderness?
Acts 14:16
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Romans 1:26-27
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:
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
{Even him}, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Jeremiah 44:16-17
{As for} the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.