Jeremiah 16:12
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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:And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
In other translations
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:And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
Hebrew words
וְאַתֶּםve'atemand youH859הֲרֵעֹתֶםhare'otemyou have done evilH7489לַעֲשׂוֹתla'asotto actH6213מֵאֲבוֹתֵיכֶםme'avoteikhemmore than ancestors yourH1וְהִנְּכֶםvehinekhemand here youH2005הֹלְכִיםholekhim[are] walkingH1980אִישׁ'isheveryoneH376אַחֲרֵי'achareiafterH310שְׁרִרוּתsherirut[the] stubbornness ofH8307לִבּוֹ־libov-own heart hisH3820הָרָעhara'<the> wickedH7451לְבִלְתִּיleviltito notH1115שְׁמֹעַshemoa'to listenH8085אֵלָי׃'elaito meH413
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Related verses
- Jeremiah 7:26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
- Jeremiah 13:10This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- Jeremiah 9:14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
- Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- 1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
- Judges 2:19And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Genesis 6:5And God 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.Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- Deuteronomy 29:19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
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