16Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned 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 doeth, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned 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 profaned 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 ye 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 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.