Jeremiah 16:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

Ye - emphatic; so far from avoiding your fathers' bad example, "ye have done far worse" (Jeremiah 7:26; 1 Kings 14:9).

Imagination - rather, stubborn perversity.

That they may not hearken - rather, connected with "ye;" 'ye have walked ... so as not to hearken 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: