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


In Context

13 " 'Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws- although the man who obeys them will live by them-and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and destroy them in the desert.

14 But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

15 Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I had given them-a land flowing with milk and honey, most beautiful of all lands-

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

17 Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the desert.

18 I said to their children in the desert, "Do not follow the statutes of your fathers or keep their laws or 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 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.

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.