because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
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Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High.
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Passages linked to Psalms 107:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 106:43 He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.
- Psalms 78:40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
- Proverbs 1:25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
- Romans 1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- 1 Samuel 2:5-8 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes. “Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up. Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:10 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
- Psalms 73:24 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- Proverbs 1:30-31 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
- Jeremiah 44:16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
- Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
- Acts 20:27 for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
- Psalms 68:6 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Psalms 113:7-9 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap, that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
- Luke 16:14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
- 2 Chronicles 25:15-16 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?” As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”
- Psalms 68:18 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
- Psalms 119:24 Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
- Isaiah 5:19 who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
- Isaiah 63:10-11 But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them. Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
- Lamentations 3:39-42 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
- Psalms 106:7 Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
- Lamentations 5:15-17 The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning. The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 11. Because they rebelled In assigning the cause of…
11. Because they rebelled In assigning the cause of their afflictions he corrects the false impressions of those persons who imagine that these happen by chance. Were they to reflect on the judgments of God, they would at once perceive that there was nothing like chance or fortune in the government of the world. Moreover, until men are persuaded that all their troubles come upon them by the appointment of God, it will never come into their minds to supplicate him for deliverance. Farther, when the prophet assigns the reason for their afflictions, he is not to be regarded as speaking of those persons as if they were notoriously wicked, but he is to be considered as calling upon the afflicted carefully to examine some particular parts of their life, and although no one accuse them, to look into their hearts, where they will always discover the true origin of all the miseries which overtake them. Nor does he only charge them with having merely sinned, but with having rebelled against the word of God, thus intimating that the best and only regulation for our lives consists in yielding a prompt obedience to his commandments. When, therefore, sheer necessity compels those who are in this manner convicted to cry unto God, they must be insensate indeed, if they do not acknowledge that the deliverance which, contrary to their expectation, they receive, comes immediately from God. For brazen gates and iron bars are spoken of for the purpose of enhancing the benefit; as if he said, the chains of perpetual slavery have been broken asunder.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Then the true way to obey God, is to…
Then the true way to obey God, is to follow his express commandment: also hereby all are exhorted to descend into themselves, forasmuch as none are punished but for their sins.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of…
Psa 107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Ver. 11. Because they rebelled against the words of God] Sin is at the bottom of all men’s miseries, as the procreant cause thereof; for God afflicteth not willingly, nor grieveth the children of men, Lam 3:33, but they rebel against his words written in the Scriptures, or, at least, in their hearts; and so he is concerned in point of honour to subdue them.
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And contemned the counsel] A foul fault. See Luk 7:30.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Against the words of God; against God’s commands, made…
Against the words of God; against God’s commands, made known either,
1. By his written word delivered to the Jews, of which the Gentiles were not ignorant, which therefore they should have diligently inquired after and searched into, as the queen of Sheba came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and as divers of the heathens travelled into very remote parts to gain a more perfect knowledge of the arts and sciences; which will justly be laid to their charge, and condemn them for their neglect of that Divine wisdom which was treasured up in the Holy Scriptures. Or,
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2. By the prophets, who sometimes were sent to the Gentiles. Or,
3. By the law and light of nature, and by its interpreters, their wise and learned philosophers, who delivered many excellent rules and precepts of piety and virtue, which were sufficient, though not for their salvation without Christ, yet for the conduct of their lives in a great measure, and to leave them without excuse for their gross disobedience thereunto.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble,....…
Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble,.... Their affliction, their hearts being brought down with labour, and they being and finding themselves in a state of darkness, in the shadow of death, in affliction and iron; or in soul troubles, under a sense of sin, and in a view of wrath and displeasure; under apprehensions of imminent danger, as the disciples in the storm; and therefore cry to the Lord, as they did,
Lord, save us, we perish, Mat 8:2.
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And he saved them out of their distresses; from all their sins; from the curse of the law; from wrath to come; from hell and death; being both able and willing. The following verse further explains this.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. Because they rebelled against the words of…
Verse 11. Because they rebelled against the words of God]
1. God showed them their duty and their interest, and commanded them to obey his word; but they cast off all subjection to his authority, acted as if they were independent of heaven and earth, and broke out into open rebellion against him.
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2. He counselled and exhorted them to return to him: but they contemned his advice, and turned his counsel into ridicule.
3. As lenient means were ineffectual, he visited them in judgment: hence it is added,
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Because they rebelled against the words of God -…
Because they rebelled against the words of God - The commands of God. They did not keep his commandments. Their captivity was produced by national disobedience. See the notes at Dan 9:5-8.
And contemned the counsel - They despised the instructions of God. The law of God, at the same time that it “is” law, is of the nature of “counsel,” since it is indicative of what God regards as wise and good, and since it is the best “advice” that God can give to people. A just and righteous law, while it involves “obligation” to obey it, is also the best counsel that can be given, and implies that the highest “wisdom” would be shown in being obedient to it. God will “command” nothing which he would not “advise,” and which it would not be “wisdom” to obey.
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Of the Most High - Of God, who, being supreme, has a right to rule over all, and to require that his laws shall be obeyed.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Because they rebelled—See the histories of the Kings…
11. Because they rebelled—See the histories of the Kings referred to Psa_107:10, and compare 2Ch_36:14-21.
Contemned the counsel of the Most High—Treated with contempt his declared purpose to punish transgression, of which he had fully forewarned them, as in Deu_28:15-68; Isaiah 1, etc. But the word “counsel,” here, may mean the fixed plan of God respecting Israel, embracing the whole scheme of their national and church life, in its relation to the ultimate redemptive economy of God. This high calling they had overlooked and despised.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. Their suffering was the punishment of sin. Cp.…
11. Their suffering was the punishment of sin. Cp. Psa_107:17; Psa_107:34. They resisted the commands of God (Psa_106:7; Psa_106:33; Psa_106:43); and blasphemously doubted or despised the wisdom and the goodness of His purposes for them. Cp. Pro_1:30; Isa_5:24; and for general illustration, 2Ch_36:16.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) Contemned.—This word is an old Mosaic designation for…
(11) Contemned.—This word is an old Mosaic designation for the provocation offered by the chosen people (Num_14:11; Num_14:23), as well as for the abhorrence shown by Jehovah for their sin (Deu_32:19). Certainly this verse is more closely applicable to violation of the Theocratic relations of Israel to Jehovah than of heathen opposition to God.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Because they rebelled against the words of God. Such…
Because they rebelled against the words of God. Such deep affliction as is here spoken of scarcely ever comes upon any but those who have offended God by resisting his will. And contemned the counsel of the most High. (comp. Pro_1:25) The "counsel of God" is the course of conduct which he has prescribed to man, whether through the reason and conscience that he has implanted in him, or through his revealed Word.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 11. Because they rebelled against the words of…
Ver. 11. Because they rebelled against the words of God. This was the general cause of bondage among the ancient people of God, they were given over to their adversaries because they were not loyal to the Lord. God's words are not to be trifled with, and those who venture on such rebellion will bring themselves into bondage.
And contemned the counsel of the Most High. They thought that they knew better than the Judge of all the earth, and therefore they left his ways and walked in their own. When men do not follow the divine counsel they give the most practical proof of their contempt for it. Those who will not be bound by God's law will, ere long, be bound by the fetters of judgment. There is too much contemning of the divine counsel, even among Christians, and hence so few of them know the liberty wherewith Christ makes us free.
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Ver. 11. Because they rebelled against the words of God. There is in the Hebrew a play upon similar soundsHimru Imree. God's words are those spoken in the Law and by the prophets. And contemned the counsel of the Most High another play upon like sounds in the HebrewHatzath Naatzu. A.R. Fausset.
Psalms 107:12*
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 they had rebelled against God's word ... rejected the…
they had rebelled against God's word ... rejected the instruction of the Most High
These phrases have similar meanings and emphasize how much they had rebelled again God, which is why they had been imprisoned. (See: Parallelism)
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He humbled their hearts through hardship
Here the heart represents a person, but specifically his will. AT: "He humbled them by allowing them to suffer hardship" (See: Synecdoche)
hardship
Possible meanings are 1) "trouble" or 2) "hard labor."
they stumbled and there was no one to help them up
The word "stumbled" refers to times when these people got into very difficult situations. AT: "they got into trouble and there was no one to help them out of it" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
Then they called out to Yahweh in their trouble
It is implied that they are praying to Yahweh so that he will help them. See how you translated this in Psalms 107:6. AT: "Then they prayed to Yahweh to help them in their trouble" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
their distress
"difficulties" or "afflictions." See how you translated this in Psalms 107:6
he brought
Here David describes Yahweh saving them from their distress as if their distress were a physical place that he was bringing them out of. AT: "he saved" (See: Metaphor)
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rebel
word of God
reject
Most High
humble
heart
stumble
trouble
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 107:11 God’s counsel includes his instruction and will.
107:11 God’s counsel includes his instruction and will.
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