Psalms 107:11
Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
In Context
10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.
12And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and their was none to help them.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full before have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.
2 Chronicles 33:10And the Lord spoke to him, and to his people, and they would not hearken.
Psalms 68:6who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:
Psalms 73:24Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
Psalms 106:7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.
Psalms 113:7Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill::
Matthew Henry on Psalms 107:11-17
The Divine Goodness towards Prisoners. 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. 13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 15 Oh… Read the whole commentary →