Psalm 107:11

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Summary

Psalm 107:11

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

Because

Lamentations 5:15

Contemned

Bible References

Because

God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.

Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low by their iniquity.

But they {were the ones who} rebelled, and they grieved {his Holy Spirit}, so he {became an enemy to them}; he himself fought against them.

Why should any living person complain about his sin?

The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony.

Contemned

You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me [into] honor.

[He] raises [the] helpless from [the] dust; he lifts [the] needy from [the] ash heap,

Your testimonies [are] my delight, {my counselors}.

So {Yahweh became very angry} with Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, and he said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people who could not deliver their own people from your hand?"

And Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not listen.

You have ignored all my counsel, and my reproof you are not willing [to accept].

Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but [she who has] many sons withers away.

those who say, "Let him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know [it]!"

"[Concerning] the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we [are] not going to listen to you!

but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, [because they] had not been baptized by him.)

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these [things], and they ridiculed him.

for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the whole purpose of God.

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,