Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
ye—emphatic: so far from avoiding your fathers' bad example, ye have done worse (Jeremiah 7:26; I 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."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 16:12:
Jeremiah 7:26
Jeremiah 16:18
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