So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Ezekiel 20:25 - Revised Standard Version Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life; 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 affliction for them, and bring their fears upon them; because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight.”
and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.
“As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: Go serve every one of you his idols, 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 your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.