Psalmen 81:12

12 Maar Mijn volk heeft Mijn stem niet gehoord; en Israel heeft Mijner niet gewild.

Psalmen 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.

Psalmen 81:12 In-Context

10 Er zal onder u geen uitlands god wezen, en gij zult u voor geen vreemden god nederbuigen.

11 Ik ben de Heere, uw God, Die u heb opgevoerd uit het land van Egypte; doe uw mond wijd open, en Ik zal hem vervullen.

12 Maar Mijn volk heeft Mijn stem niet gehoord; en Israel heeft Mijner niet gewild.

13 Dies heb Ik het overgegeven in het goeddunken huns harten, dat zij wandelden in hun raadslagen.

14 Och, dat Mijn volk naar Mij gehoord had, dat Israel in Mijn wegen gewandeld had!