Psalm 81:12 {80:13}
Good News Translation
So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.

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

Contemporary English Version
So I let you be stubborn and keep on following your own advice.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

I gave

Genesis 6:3 And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Acts 7:42 And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

Acts 14:16 Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Romans 1:24,26,27 Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders: . . .

their own hearts' lust.

they walked

Exodus 11:9 And he went out from Pharao exceeding angry. But the Lord said to Moses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be done in the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 30:1 Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin:

Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went backward and not forward,

Jeremiah 44:16-17 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee: . . .

Context
Sing for Joy to God, Our Strength
11But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. 12So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.13If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:…
Cross References
Acts 7:42
And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

Acts 14:16
Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Romans 1:24
Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

Romans 1:26
For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

Job 8:4
Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:

Psalm 106:43
Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

Isaiah 44:18
They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart.

Isaiah 65:2
I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

Ezekiel 20:25
Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.

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

Psalm 81:11
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