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Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

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ASV

and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

KJV

And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאַתֶּ֛םve.'a.Temand youH859 →
הֲרֵעֹתֶ֥םha.re.'o.Temyou have done evilH7489 →
לַעֲשׂ֖וֹתla.'a.Sotto actH6213 →
מֵאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑םme.'a.vo.tei.Khemmore than ancestors yourH1 →
וְהִנְּכֶ֣םve.hi.ne.Khemand here youH2005 →
הֹלְכִ֗יםho.le.Khim[are] walkingH1980 →
אִ֚ישׁ'isheveryoneH376 →
אַֽחֲרֵי֙'a.cha.ReiafterH310 →
שְׁרִר֣וּתshe.ri.Rut[the] stubbornness ofH8307 →
לִבּֽוֹ־li.bov-own heart hisH3820 →
הָרָ֔עha.Ra'<the> wickedH7451 →
לְבִלְתִּ֖יle.vil.Tito notH1115 →
שְׁמֹ֥עַshe.Mo.a'to listenH8085 →
אֵלָֽי׃'e.Laito meH413 →

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Lamentations 5:7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.Jeremiah 13:10These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.Jeremiah 7:26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.Jeremiah 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”Jeremiah 9:14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.Ezekiel 20:30Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,Judges 2:19But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”Deuteronomy 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.Deuteronomy 9:27Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.Ecclesiastes 8:12Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?Genesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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