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Psalm 81

Psa. 81:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Sod I gave them up
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
βunto their own hearts’
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
lust
shriyruwth (Hebrew #8307)
obstinacy
KJV usage: imagination, lust.
Pronounce: sher-ee-rooth'
Origin: from 8324 in the sense of twisted, i.e. firm
: and they walked
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
in their own counsels
mow`etsah (Hebrew #4156)
a purpose
KJV usage: counsel, device.
Pronounce: mo-ay-tsaw'
Origin: from 3289
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Acts 7:42• 42Then 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? (Acts 7:42)
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or, to the hardness of their own hearts, or, imaginations.

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Ministry on This Verse

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I gave.
Gen. 6:3• 3And 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. (Gen. 6:3)
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Acts 7:42• 42Then 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? (Acts 7:42)
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Acts 14:16• 16Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. (Acts 14:16)
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Rom. 1:24,26‑27• 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
 26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
 27And 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. (Rom. 1:24,26‑27)
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2 Thess. 2:9‑11• 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: (2 Thess. 2:9‑11)
their own hearts' lust.
or, the hardness of their hearts, orimaginations.
they walked.
Ex. 11:9• 9And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. (Ex. 11:9)
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Isa. 30:1• 1Woe 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: (Isa. 30:1)
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Jer. 7:24• 24But 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. (Jer. 7:24)
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Jer. 44:16‑17• 16As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
 17But 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. (Jer. 44:16‑17)
• Here then is the answer to that question raised by the godly in the last psalm, when they ask, “Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?” (“Psalms 81” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.