Jeremiah 16:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² And you have done more evil than your fathers, for look, each one walks according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² and ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And because you have done worse than your fathers. For behold, every one of you walks after the stubbornness of his own evil heart, so that you do not listen to and obey Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

Common English Bible

¹² And you, you have acted worse than your ancestors, each of you following your own willful, evil hearts and paying no attention to me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But you have acted even worse than your fathers. For behold, each one walks after the depravity of his own evil heart, so that he does not listen to me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And you also have done worse than your fathers: for, behold, every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.

Jeremiah 16:12 Cross References

Genesis 6:5

And יהוה saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And יהוה smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I have done,

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Although a sinner is doing evil a hundred times, and his life is prolonged, yet I know that there is good to those who fear Elohim, who fear before Him.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then – to the dead!

Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, who refuse to hear My Words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and walk after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow themselves to them, is like this girdle which is completely useless.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Jeremiah 18:12

But they shall say, “It is no use! For we walk according to our own plans, and we do each one the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

Jeremiah 22:28

“Is this man Konyahu a despised broken pot, or an undesirable vessel? Why are they hurled out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they do not know?

Jeremiah 7:24

“But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 7:26

“But they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did evil, more than their fathers.

Jeremiah 9:14

but they have walked according to the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Ba‛als, which their fathers had taught them.”

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned, they are no more. We have borne their crookednesses.

Ezekiel 20:30

“Therefore say to the house of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Are you defiling yourselves in the way of your fathers? And do you whore after their abominations?

Amos 2:4

Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yehuḏah, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they have rejected the Torah of יהוה, and did not guard His laws. And their lies after which their fathers walked lead them astray.

Malachi 3:7

“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My laws and did not guard them. Turn back to Me, and I shall turn back to you,” said יהוה of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what shall we turn back?’

Mark 7:21

“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, whorings, murders,

Deuteronomy 29:19

“And it shall be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ in order to add drunkenness to thirst.

Deuteronomy 9:27

Remember Your servants, Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ. Do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wrong or on their sin,

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors shall go on to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

Hebrews 3:12

Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living Elohim,

Judges 2:19

And it came to be, when the ruler was dead, that they would turn back and do more corruptly than their fathers, to go after other mighty ones, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not refrain from their practices and from their stubborn way.

1 Samuel 15:23

“For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of יהוה, He also does reject you as sovereign.”