So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.
Ver. 12. So I gave them up] I left them as a ship without a rudder; as a horse without reins, to go whither they would, and do what they would. This is a fearful judgment (poena rebellionis maxima), Hos 4:14 Rom 1:28 2 Thessalonians 2:11,12 .
And they walked in their own counsels] To their own ruin, because they took counsel, but not of God, and covered with a covering, but not of his Spirit, that they might add sin to sin, Isaiah 30:1 .