Psalms 81:12
What does Psalms 81:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 81:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
KJV
King James Version · 1611So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Not available in this translation
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Romans 1:24
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
- Acts 7:42
But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Acts 14:16
who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.
- Isaiah 30:1
Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
- Job 8:4
If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
- Romans 1:26
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
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