Jeremiah 18:12
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But 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.’”
In context
10 and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
11 Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
12 But 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.’”
13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
Jeremiah 18:12 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But 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.’”
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.
- DBY Darby Translation
- But they say, There is no hope; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will each one do [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.
- WBS Webster 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.