because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
Parallel translations
- WEB because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
- KJV Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
- NKJV Because they rebelled against the words of God, And despised the counsel of the Most High,
- NASB Because they had rebelled against the words of God And rejected the plan of the Most High.
- NLT They rebelled against the words of God, scorning the counsel of the Most High.
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Quick answer
Their imprisonment came because they rebelled against God's words and despised his counsel.
Overview
The psalmist names the cause of their bondage: deliberate rebellion against the words and counsel of the Most High. Their suffering was the just fruit of rejecting God's guidance. This underscores that sin brings bondage, and it magnifies the grace that nonetheless rescues rebels, a grace fully revealed in the gospel of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 106:43Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
- Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Ps 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- Prov 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
- 2 Chr 33:10And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.
- 1 Sam 2:5–8The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
- Jer 44:16“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
- Acts 20:27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
- Ps 73:24You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.
- 2 Chr 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
- Prov 1:30–31They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
- Ps 68:6God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Ps 113:7–9He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
- Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.
- Ps 68:18You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
- Ps 119:24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
- Isa 63:10–11But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
- Lam 3:39–42Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
- 2 Chr 25:15–16Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
- Isa 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
- Ps 106:7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
- Lam 5:15–17Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
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