NET Bible
"But they just keep saying,‘We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”"
— Jeremiah 18:12, NET Bible
“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.”
“But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart. ”
“But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.”
“And they said; We have no hopes: for we will go after our own thoughts, and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart.”
“But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.”
“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.”
And there are times when I promise to build up and establish a nation or kingdom.
But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem this: The LORD says,‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’
But they just keep saying,‘We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”
Therefore, the LORD says,“Ask the people of other nations whether they have heard of anything like this. Israel should have been like a virgin. But she has done something utterly revolting!
Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon? Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?
Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.