The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Jeremiah 18:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they will say, That is in vain! For we will walk after our own devices, and we will each do as the stubbornness of his own evil heart dictates. American Standard Version (1901) But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart. Common English Bible But they said, “What’s the use! We will follow our own plans and act according to our own willful, evil hearts.” Catholic Public Domain Version And they said: "We have lost hope. And so we will follow our own thoughts, and each of us will act according to the depravity of his own evil heart." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they said: We have no hopes, for we will go after our own thoughts and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart. |
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, *I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?
You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.
I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them.
and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:
Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
They say continually to those who despise me, the LORD has said, You shall have shalom; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.
At that time they shall call Yerushalayim the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Yerushalayim: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Yehudah, and in the streets of Yerushalayim; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the shofar; but they said, We will not listen.
But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Yisra'el: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have shalom, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.