“So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.”
The consequence is divine withdrawal: "So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels." The image of being given over to stubborn hearts suggests that God permits the people to experience the natural consequences of their rebellion. They are allowed to follow their own counsel rather than God's instruction.
Church Fathers on Psalms 81:12
1. For a Title this Psalm has, “Unto the end for the presses, on the fifth of the Sabbath, a Psalm to Asaph himself.” Into one title many mysteries are heaped together, still so that the lintel of the Psalm indicates the things within. As we have to speak of the presses, let no one expect that we shall speak of a vat, of a press, of olive baskets; because neither the Psalm has this, and therefore it indicates the greater mystery.... No such thing did ye hear in this when it…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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