Psalms 81:12

12 So I let go of the reins and told them, 'Run! Do it your own way!'

Psalms 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.

Psalms 81:12 In-Context

10 I'm God, your God, the very God who rescued you from doom in Egypt, Then fed you all you could eat, filled your hungry stomachs.

11 "But my people didn't listen, Israel paid no attention;

12 So I let go of the reins and told them, 'Run! Do it your own way!'

13 "Oh, dear people, will you listen to me now? Israel, will you follow my map?

14 I'll make short work of your enemies, give your foes the back of my hand.