Psalms 107:11
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psalms 107:11 in other translations
| BSB | because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High. |
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| WEB | because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High. |
| ASV | Because they rebelled against the words of God, And contemned the counsel of the Most High: |
| YLT | Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised. |
| DARBY | Because they had rebelled against the words of God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High;... |
| BBE | Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High: |
| Webster | Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High: |
What does Psalms 107:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 107:10-16
10-16. Their sufferings were for their rebellion against (Psa 105:28) the words, or purposes, or promises, of God for their benefit. When humbled they cry to God, who delivers them from bondage, described as a dark dungeon with doors and bars of metal, in which they are bound in iron--that is, chains and fetters. shadow of death--darkness with danger (Psa 23:4).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 107:10-16
This description of prisoners and captives intimates that they are desolate and sorrowful. In the eastern prisons the captives were and are treated with much severity. Afflicting providences must be improved as humbling providences; and we lose the benefit, if our hearts are unhumbled and unbroken under them. This is a shadow of the sinner's deliverance from a far worse confinement. The awakened sinner discovers his…
Psalms 107:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 107:11
- Psalms 106:43
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
- Psalms 78:40
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- Romans 1:28
And 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;
- Proverbs 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
- 1 Samuel 2:5-8
They 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. The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
- Jeremiah 44:16
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
- Proverbs 1:30-31
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16
But 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.
- Acts 20:27
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
- 2 Chronicles 33:10
And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
- Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
- Psalms 73:24
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
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Context
- Psalms 107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
- Psalms 107:11
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
- Psalms 107:12
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Psalms 107:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por cuanto fueron rebeldes á las palabras de Jehová, y aborrecieron el consejo del Altísimo, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Parce qu’ils se sont rebellés contre les paroles de ✶Dieu, et ont méprisé le conseil du Très-haut… |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Weil sie widerspenstig gewesen waren gegen die Worte Gottes und verachtet hatten den Rat des Höchsten, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quis deducet me in civitatem munitam? quis deducet me usque in Idumæam? |