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

makes a home for the lonely;

He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Many times He would deliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,
And so sank down in their iniquity.

But they rebelled
And grieved His Holy Spirit;
Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy,
He fought against them.

Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?

The joy of our hearts has ceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Contemned

With Your counsel You will guide me,
And afterward receive me to glory.

He raises the poor from the dust
And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Your testimonies also are my delight;
They are my counselors.

Then the anger of the Lord burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people who have not delivered their own people from your hand?”

The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

And you neglected all my counsel
And did not want my reproof;

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease to hunger.

Even the barren gives birth to seven,

But she who has many children languishes.

Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;

And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near
And come to pass, that we may know it!”

“As for the

message that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you!

But the Pharisees and the

lawyers rejected God’s purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.

For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,