Jeremiah 16:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Ye in latter ages, in the time of Manasseh, have done worse than your fathers did, and now in the time of Jehoiakim you run on much in the same course of idolatry and superstition, which in this is worse in you, because for thirty years together you had the better example of good Josiah the father of your present king, together with what his authority could do to reduce you; he hath not been gone now above five years, and you are returned to your old vomit, and are all of you serving me according to your own fancies, so stubborn are you, and resolved against obedience to me.

Jeremiah 16:12

12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imaginationc of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: