Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned 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.
- BSB because they rebelled against the words of God and despised 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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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.
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- Ps 106:43Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
- Rom 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
- Ps 78:40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- Prov 1:25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
- 2 Chr 33:10And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
- 1 Sam 2:5–8They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
- Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
- Jer 44:16As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
- Acts 20:27For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
- Ps 73:24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- 2 Chr 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
- Prov 1:30–31They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
- Ps 68:6God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
- Ps 113:7–9He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
- Luke 16:14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
- Ps 68:18Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
- Ps 119:24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
- Isa 63:10–11But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
- Lam 3:39–42Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- 2 Chr 25:15–16Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
- Isa 5:19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
- Ps 106:7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
- Lam 5:15–17The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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