Psalms 81 · Verse 12

Psalms 81:12

So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Psalms 81:12, King James Version

Psalms 81:12 in other translations

BSBSo I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
WEBSo I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
ASVSo I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
YLTAnd I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
DARBYSo I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
BBESo I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
WebsterSo I gave them up to their own hearts lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

What does Psalms 81:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 81:11-12

11-12. They failed, and He gave them up to their own desires and hardness of heart (De 29:18; Pr 1:30; Ro 11:25).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 Unto 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 81:8-16

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…

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Psalms 81:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וָֽ֭אֲשַׁלְּחֵהוּVa.'a.sha.le.che.huand I gave over itH7971
בִּשְׁרִיר֣וּתbish.ri.Rutin [the] stubbornness ofH8307
לִבָּ֑םli.Bamheart theirH3820
יֵ֝לְכ֗וּye.le.Khuthey walkedH1980
בְּֽמוֹעֲצוֹתֵיהֶֽם\׃Be.mo.'a.tzo.tei.Hemin own schemes theirH4156

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Cross references for Psalms 81:12

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11

    Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

  • 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: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

  • 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. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

  • Job 8:4

    If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I gave.
Ge 6:3; Ac 7:42; 14:16; Ro 1:24,26,27; 2Th 2:9-11
their own hearts' lust. or, the hardness of their hearts, orimaginations. they walked.
Ex 11:9; Isa 30:1; Jer 7:24; 44:16,17

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Context

  • Psalms 81:11

    But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

  • Psalms 81:12

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

  • Psalms 81:13

    Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

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Psalms 81:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Dejélos por tanto á la dureza de su corazón: caminaron en sus consejos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Mais mon peuple n’a pas écouté ma voix, et Israël n’a pas voulu de moi.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich gab sie dahin der Verstocktheit ihres Herzens; sie wandelten nach ihren Ratschlägen.