Salmi 81:12

12 Ond’io li abbandonai alla durezza del cuor loro, perché camminassero secondo i loro consigli.

Salmi 81:12 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 81:12

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust
Sometimes God gave them up, when they sinned, into the hands of the Moabites, or Ammonites, or Philistines, or other neighbouring nations, for their chastisement; but to be delivered up unto their own hearts' lust is worse than that; nay, than to be delivered to Satan: salvation may be the consequence of that, but damnation of this; and yet it is a righteous judgment; for as men like not to retain God in their knowledge, it is but just with him to give them up to vile affections, to a reprobate mind, to do things not convenient, ( Romans 1:24 Romans 1:26 Romans 1:28 ) there is nothing men are more desirous of than to have their hearts' lusts; and there is no greater judgment can befall them than to be left to the power of them, which must unavoidably issue in their ruin here and hereafter: and they walked in their own counsels; which were bad; after the imagination of their own evil hearts, and not after the counsels and directions of God in his word, and by his servants.

Salmi 81:12 In-Context

10 Io sono l’Eterno, l’Iddio tuo, che ti fece risalire dal paese d’Egitto; allarga la tua bocca, ed io l’empirò.

11 Ma il mio popolo non ha ascoltato la mia voce, e Israele non mi ha ubbidito.

12 Ond’io li abbandonai alla durezza del cuor loro, perché camminassero secondo i loro consigli.

13 Oh se il mio popolo volesse ascoltarmi, se Israele volesse camminar nelle mie vie!

14 Tosto farei piegare i loro nemici, e rivolgerei la mia mano contro i loro avversari.