Imagination - Better, as in the margin.
And went backward - literally, as in the margin; i. e., they turned their back upon Me to follow their own devices.
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Jeremiah 7:24
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imaginationc of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.