Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.”

只随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们列祖所教训的随从众巴力。”

反随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们祖先所教训的随从诸巴力。”

反随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们祖先所教训的随从诸巴力。”

执迷不悟，随从他们祖先的教导去供奉巴力。”

反而随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们列祖所教训的，随从众巴力。”

只隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們列祖所教訓的隨從眾巴力。」

反隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們祖先所教訓的隨從諸巴力。」

反隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們祖先所教訓的隨從諸巴力。」

執迷不悟，隨從他們祖先的教導去供奉巴力。」

反而隨從自己頑梗的心行事，照他們列祖所教訓的，隨從眾巴力。”

只隨從自己心意之頑強，隨從眾巴力，就是他們列祖所教導他們行的。

惟徇己心之剛愎、從諸巴力、即其祖所教者、

乃縱私欲崇事巴力、效祖之尤。

放縱私欲、傚法其祖、崇拜巴力、

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”

Instead, they have done what their stubborn hearts wanted them to do. They have worshiped the gods that are named Baal. They have done what their people have taught them to do through the years.”

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

Instead, they have stubbornly followed their own desires and worshiped the images of Baal, as their ancestors taught them.

but have followed the stubbornness of their heart and the Baals, as their fathers taught them,”

but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them,”

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;

Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed after the Baals as their fathers taught them.”

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

At that time Jerusalem will be called The LORD’s Throne, and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD in Jerusalem. They will cease to follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.Claiming to be wise, they became foolsand exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the LORD of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me— this is the LORD’s declaration.Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

The priests quit asking,“ Where is the LORD?” The experts in the law no longer knew me, and the rulers rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

How can you protest,“ I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals”? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young camel twisting and turning on her way,

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

When the LORD saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,

Instead, we will do everything we promised: we will burn incense to the queen of heaven and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our officials did in Judah’s cities and in Jerusalem’s streets. Then we had enough food, we were well off, and we saw no disaster,