Psalms 81:12
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
American King James Version (AKJV)
So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
American Standard Version (ASV)
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.
Clarke's Psalms 81:12 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Psalms 81:12 Bible Commentary
So 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 and happiness in their own way - to let them see what must be the result of forsaking the true God. The world - and the church too - has been often suffered to make this experiment.
And they walked in their own counsels - As they thought wise and best. Compare Acts 7:42; Acts 14:16; Romans 1:24; Psalm 78:26-37.
