But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Hearkened not - they did not give even a partial hearing to me (Psalms 81:11-12).
Imagination - rather, as margin, 'the stubbornness.'
Backward ... - (Jeremiah 2:27, "They have turned their back unto me, and not their face;" Jeremiah 32:33; Hosea 4:16, "Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer").