So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Ezekiel 20:25 - New Revised Standard Version Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wherefore also I gave them [over to] statutes that were not good and ordinances whereby they should not live and could not have life, [Ps. 81:12; Isa. 66:4; Rom. 1:21-25, 28.] American Standard Version (1901) Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live; Common English Bible I also issued regulations that were not good and case laws by which they could not live. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, I also gave them precepts that were not good, and judgments by which they shall not live. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live. |
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
I also will choose to mock them, and bring upon them what they fear; because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my sight, and chose what did not please me.
I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.
As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: Go serve your idols, everyone of you now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.
The Lord will bring you, and the king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.