New Revised Standard Version
In past generations he allowed all the nations to follow their own ways;

Contemporary English Version
In times past, God let each nation go its own way.

New American Bible
In past generations he allowed all Gentiles to go their own ways;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

suffered.

Acts 17:30 And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.

Psalm 81:12 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Psalm 147:20 He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.

Romans 1:21-25,28 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

Ephesians 2:12 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world.

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.