Psalm 81:12
New International Version
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

New Living Translation
So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.

English Standard Version
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

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

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

New King James Version
So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.

New American Standard Bible
“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk by their own plans.

NASB 1995
“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in their own devices.

NASB 1977
“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.

Amplified Bible
“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.

Christian Standard Bible
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans.

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.

English Revised Version
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So I let them go their own stubborn ways and follow their own advice.

Good News Translation
So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.

International Standard Version
So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.

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

NET Bible
I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.

New Heart English Bible
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, 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.

World English Bible
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, "" They walk in their own counsels.

Young's Literal Translation
And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

Smith's Literal Translation
And I will send him forth in the hardnesses of their heart: they shall go in their counsels.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.

New American Bible
So I thrust them away to the hardness of their heart; ‘Let them walk in their own machinations.’

New Revised Standard Version
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
So they walked according to the desires of their own hearts and according to their own counsels.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
But they walked in the desire of their heart and in the counsel of their souls.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways.

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Audio Bible



Context
Sing for Joy to God, Our Strength
11But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. 12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. 13If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,…

Cross References
Romans 1:24-25
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

Acts 7:42
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 Israel?

Proverbs 1:29-31
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD. / They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. / So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Isaiah 65:2
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,

Jeremiah 7:24
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.

Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. / For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, / in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

Deuteronomy 29:19
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

Ezekiel 20:25-26
I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. / And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

2 Kings 17:15
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

Judges 2:19
But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

Isaiah 30:1
“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.

Jeremiah 13:10
These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

Matthew 15:14
Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”


Treasury of Scripture

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

I gave

Genesis 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.

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.

their own hearts' lust.

they walked

Exodus 11:9
And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

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:

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.

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Psalm 81
1. An exhortation to a solemn praising of God
4. God challenges that duty by reason of his benefits
8. God, exhorting to obedience, complains of their disobedience, which proves their own hurt.














So I gave them up
This phrase reflects a divine decision where God allows His people to follow their own desires. The Hebrew root here is "nathan," meaning to give or allow. Historically, this reflects moments when God, respecting human free will, permits individuals to pursue their own paths, even when those paths lead away from Him. This is a sobering reminder of the consequences of persistent disobedience and the importance of aligning our will with God's.

to their stubborn hearts
The term "stubborn" is derived from the Hebrew word "sarar," which conveys a sense of rebellion or obstinacy. In the biblical context, the heart is often seen as the seat of will and emotion. A "stubborn heart" indicates a willful resistance to God's guidance. This phrase serves as a warning against hardening one's heart to divine instruction, emphasizing the need for humility and openness to God's leading.

to follow their own devices
The word "devices" comes from the Hebrew "moetsah," which can mean plans or schemes. This phrase suggests a reliance on human wisdom and understanding rather than divine guidance. Historically, Israel's tendency to follow their own plans often led to idolatry and moral decline. This serves as a cautionary tale for believers today, highlighting the importance of seeking God's wisdom and direction in all aspects of life.

(12) Lust.--Rather, stubbornness, or perversity, from root meaning "to twist."

Verse 12. - So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust. God's Spirit will not always strive with men (Genesis 6:3). After a time, if they persist in evil courses and disobedience to his commands, he "gives them up," withdraws from them, leaves them to themselves, to the "lust," or rather "stubbornness" of their own hearts - to their own perverse wills and imaginations. And they walked in their own counsels (comp. Jeremiah 7:24). This result is inevitable. If God no longer guides their thoughts and enlightens their understandings, they can but follow their own foolish counsels, and the result cannot but be disastrous.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So I gave them up
וָֽ֭אֲשַׁלְּחֵהוּ (wā·’ă·šal·lə·ḥê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

to their stubborn
בִּשְׁרִיר֣וּת (biš·rî·rūṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8307: Firmness, stubbornness

hearts
לִבָּ֑ם (lib·bām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

to follow
יֵ֝לְכ֗וּ (yê·lə·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

their own devices.
בְּֽמוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ (bə·mō·w·‘ă·ṣō·w·ṯê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4156: Counsel, plan, principle, device


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