Jeremiah 16:12
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:
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. Jeremiah is forbidden to marry, have children, enter a house of mourning, or join feasting as signs of the coming catastrophe. Their fathers forsook God and they were worse. But after the judgment, God promises a new Exodus that will …
Other Translations
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:
Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.
And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:
Cross References
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil …
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after …
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, …
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall …
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: …
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living …