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Psalm 107:11
because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
11because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
12Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.
13Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
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The word “because” links these prisoners’ distress to their rejection of God’s words, making contempt for the counsel of the Most High a grave matter.
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Psalm 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,God’s counsel is disregarded in both passages: one describes failing to wait for it, the other condemning it.
Psalm 106:43He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.Both passages name rebellion against God, with the surrounding account in Psalm 107 also describing people brought low and rescued.
Psalm 78:40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!Rebellion against God is the shared act; Psalm 78 names the grief it caused him in the wilderness.
Proverbs 1:25but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;Both passages describe rejecting counsel, with Proverbs also naming a refusal to receive reproof.
Romans 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;Both texts describe rejection of God: rebellion against his words in the psalm and refusal to retain knowledge of him in Romans.
1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the LORD’s word, he has also rejected you …Both passages connect rebellion with rejecting God’s word; Samuel also names the loss of kingship as a consequence.
Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.The counsel of God appears in both texts, condemned by the prisoners and declared without shrinking back in Acts.
Jeremiah 44:16“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the LORD’s name, we will not listen to you.Jeremiah records an explicit refusal to listen to the LORD’s word, matching the rebellion against God’s words described in the psalm.
Psalm 73:24You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.God’s counsel is the shared thread, rejected in Psalm 107 and trusted for guidance in Psalm 73.
Proverbs 1:30–31They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.Both passages describe contempt for counsel, with Proverbs pairing that contempt with despising reproof.
2 Chronicles 33:10The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they didn’t listen.God speaks in both passages, and the people respond with refusal rather than listening to his words.
2 Chronicles 36:16but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no …Both texts name contempt for God’s words; Chronicles also describes mocking his messengers and the wrath that followed.
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God’s words carry the authority of the Most High. The surrounding verses name the consequences of rebellion, then tell how he saved those who cried to him.
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