Psalms 81:12

“So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust, etc.] Sometimes God gave them up, when they sinned, into the hands of the Moabites, or Ammonites, or Philistines, or other neighbouring nations, for their chastisement; but to be delivered up unto their own hearts’ lust is worse than that; nay, than to be delivered to Satan: salvation may be the consequence of that, but damnation of this; and yet it is a righteous judgment; for as men like not to retain God in their knowledge, it is but just with him to give them up to vile affections, to a reprobate mind, to do things not convenient, ( <450124>Romans 1:24,26,28) there is nothing men are more desirous of than to have their hearts’ lusts; and…”

“So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust - Margin, as in Hebrew, to the hardness of their own hearts. Literally, “I sent them, or I dismissed them, to the hardness of their hearts.” I suffered them to have what, in the hardness of their hearts they desired, or what their hard and rebellious hearts prompted them to desire: I indulged them in their wishes. I gave them what they asked, and left them to themselves to work out the problem about success and happiness in their own way - to let them see what must be the result of forsaking the true God. The world - and the church too - has been often suffered to make this experiment. And they walked in their own counsels - As they thought wise…”

“I gave: Gen 6:3; Act 7:42, Act 14:16; Rom 1:24, Rom 1:26, Rom 1:27; Th2 2:9-11 their own hearts' lust: or, the hardness of their hearts, or imaginations they walked: Exo 11:9; Isa 30:1; Jer 7:24, Jer 44:16, Jer 44:17 Psalms 81:13”