Psalms 107:11
Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
In Context
10Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,
12And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.
2 Chronicles 33:10And Jehovah speaketh unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended,
Psalms 68:6God — causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only — the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
Psalms 73:24With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.
Psalms 106:7Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.
Psalms 113:7He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth 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 →