Psaume 81:12

12 Mais mon peuple n'a pas écouté ma voix; Israël n'a pas voulu m'obéir.

Psaume 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.

Psaume 81:12 In-Context

10 Qu'il n'y ait point chez toi de dieu étranger; ne te prosterne pas devant les dieux des nations!

11 Je suis l'Éternel, ton Dieu, qui t'ai fait remonter du pays d'Égypte. Ouvre ta bouche, et je la remplirai.

12 Mais mon peuple n'a pas écouté ma voix; Israël n'a pas voulu m'obéir.

13 Et je les ai abandonnés à la dureté de leur cœur, pour marcher selon leurs conseils.

14 Oh! si mon peuple voulait m'écouter, qu'Israël marchât dans mes voies!