Psalms 81:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

So I gave them up{H8762)} unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked{H8799)} in their own counsels.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹא־שָׁמַ֣ע עַמִּ֣י לְקוֹלִ֑י וְ֝יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לֹא־אָ֥בָה לִֽי׃

Transliteration

And not-šāmaʿ my ʿammî to my qôlî and wəyiśrāʾēl not-ʾābâ to me

Grammar Details

*šāmaʿ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular with negation and prefixed conjunction waw - 'and did not listen'
*ʿammî*: masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my people'
*qôlî*: masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix and prefixed preposition lamed - 'to my voice'
*wəyiśrāʾēl*: proper name with prefixed conjunction waw - 'and Israel'
*ʾābâ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular with negation - 'was not willing'

Word Meanings

*šāmaʿ*: listened/heard/obeyed
*ʿammî*: my people/my nation
*qôlî*: my voice/my sound/my call
*ʾābâ*: was willing/consented/desired

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Referenced Verses

Rom 1:24 : 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Jer 7:24 : 24 But 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.
Acts 7:42 : 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Isa 30:1 : 1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Acts 14:16 : 16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Jer 44:16-17 : 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Exod 11:9 : 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
Job 8:4 : 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Gen 6:3 : 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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