Psalms 107:11
Because they had rebelled against the sayings of GOD,—and, the counsel of the Most High, they had spurned;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
In Context
10The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;
12And he bowed down, with labour, their heart, They staggered, with no one to help,
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5The sated, have, for bread, taken hire, But, the famished, have left off their toil,—So that, the barren, hath given birth unto seven, While, she that hath many sons, languisheth:
2 Chronicles 33:10And Yahweh spake unto Manasseh and unto his people, but they did not give ear.
Psalms 68:6God, is he that causeth the solitary to dwell in a home, That bringeth out prisoners into prosperity, But, the rebellious, have made their habitation in a sunburnt land.
Psalms 73:24By thy counsel, wilt thou guide me, And, afterwards, unto glory, wilt thou take me.
Psalms 106:7Our fathers, in Egypt, understood not thy wonders, They remembered not the abounding of thy lovingkindnesses, but rebelled by the sea—at the Red Sea.
Psalms 113:7That raiseth, out of the dust, the poor, From the dunghill, uplifteth the needy;
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 →