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


In Context

13 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.

14 But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.

15 So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands.

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

17 Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.

18 And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled 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 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.

The American 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.