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Jeremiah 18:12 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 18 · verse 12
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.Jeremiah 18:12 · King James Version
Jeremiah 18:12 in context
10If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
13Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- imaginationshᵉrîyrûwthobstinacyH8307 →
- devicesmachăshâbâha contrivanceH4284 →
- afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- hopeyâʼashto desistH2976 →
- walkyâlakto walkH3212 →
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These verses seem to be the application of the general truths laid down in the foregoing part of the chapter to the nation of the Jews and their present state. I. God was now speaking concerning them to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-17