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Psalm 81:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

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

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But your ancestors refused to listen. They were stubborn, and whenever I wanted them to go one way, they always went the other.

So God let these people go their own way. They did what they wanted to do, and their filthy thoughts made them do shameful things with their bodies.

This is the Lord's message for his rebellious people: “You follow your own plans instead of mine; you make treaties without asking me, and you keep on sinning.

God turned his back on his people and left them. Then they worshiped the stars in the sky, just as it says in the Book of the Prophets, “People of Israel, you didn't offer sacrifices and offerings to me during those 40 years in the desert.

In times past, God let each nation go its own way.

He made your children pay for their sins.

Then the Lord said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than 120 years.”

What the Lord had earlier said to Moses came true. He had said, “The king of Egypt won't listen. Then I will perform even more miracles.”

If you disobey me and my laws, and if you break our agreement,

The people would not listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want to be like other nations. We want a king to rule us and lead us in battle.”

All of that happened because the people of Israel had not obeyed the Lord their God. They rejected the solemn agreement he had made with them, and they ignored everything that the Lord's servant Moses had told them.

Our stubborn ancestors refused to obey— they forgot about the miracles you had worked for them, and they were determined to return to Egypt and become slaves again.

They have turned against the Lord and can't be trusted. They have refused his teaching

Israel sinned and refused to obey the Lord or follow his instructions. So the Lord let us be robbed of everything we owned.

because now that I have given you the Lord's answer, you refuse to obey him.

but they still rebelled against me. They refused to listen and kept on worshiping their idols and foreign gods. In my anger, I decided to punish the Israelites in Egypt.

Israel, you disobeyed my God. Now he will force you to roam from nation to nation.




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