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Psalms 81:12
12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans.
Psalms 81:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- New International Version (NIV)So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.
Context of Psalms 81:12
10I am the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel did not obey me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans. 13If only my people would listen to me and Israel would follow my ways, 14I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.”
Read all of Psalms 81Psalms 81:12 word by word
וָֽ֭אֲשַׁלְּחֵהוּ בִּשְׁרִיר֣וּת לִבָּ֑ם יֵ֝לְכ֗וּ בְּֽמוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 81:12
- Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”
- Acts 7:42God turned away and gave them up to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness?
- Acts 14:16In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own way,
- Romans 1:24Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan’s working, with every kind of miracle, both signs and wonders serving the lie,
- Exodus 11:9The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
- Isaiah 30:1Woe to the rebellious children! This is the Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan, but not mine; they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.
- Jeremiah 7:24Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.
- Jeremiah 44:16“As for the word you spoke to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you!
Commentaries on Psalms 81:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Unto 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12So 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-16Verses 8-16 We cannot look for too little from the creature, nor too much from the Creator. We may have enough from God, if we pray for it in faith. All the wickedness of the world is owing to man's wilfulness. People are not religious, because they will not be so. God is not the Author of their sin, he leaves them to the lusts of their own hearts, and the counsels of their own heads; if they do not well, the blame must be upon themselves. The Lord is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-16The Lord helps Israel to understand that their failure was not because of his weakness.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-1211-12. They failed, and He gave them up to their own desires and hardness of heart (De 29:18; Pr 1:30; Ro 11:25).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 81
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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