16Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.


In Context

13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

14 But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

15 Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Ezekiel 20:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:16Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:16because they rejected my laws and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts were devoted to their idols.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:16Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:16because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:16because they rejected my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going.