Contemned. — This word is an old Mosaic designation for the provocation offered by the chosen people (Numbers 14:11; Numbers 14:23), as well as for the abhorrence shown by Jehovah for their sin (Deuteronomy 32:19). Certainly this verse is more closely applicable to violation of the Theocratic relations of Israel to Jehovah than of heathen opposition to God.
Verse Psalms 107:11. _BECAUSE THEY REBELLED AGAINST THE WORDS OF GOD_] 1. God showed them their duty and their interest, and commanded them to obey his word; but they cast off all subjection to his a...
BECAUSE THEY REBELLED AGAINST THE WORDS OF GOD - The commands of God. They did not keep his commandments. Their captivity was produced by national disobedience. See the notes at Daniel 9:5. AND CONTEM...
THE DEUTERONOMY SECTION: BOOK FIVE: PSALM 107-150 The final section of the book of Psalms, the fifth, is just like Deuteronomy. It shows God's ways with Israel, the end of these ways in deliverance n...
BOOK V. PSS. CVII.- CL. CVII. A Psalm of Thanksgiving for Yahweh's Special Goodness. It is divided at Psalms 107:8 f., Psalms 107:15 f., Psalms 107:21 f.,...
REBELLED. This marks the subject of 4-9. WORDS. sayings, utterances. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. CONTEMNED. despised. THE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _'Elyon._ App-4....
BECAUSE THEY REBELLED— Mudge reads this and the next verse in a parenthesis: (_Because they had rebelled,_ &c. Psalms 107:12. _And so he hath brought down their heart with pain; they are fallen withou...
THE PSALMS BOOK THE FIFTH[474] [474] See Table II., _ante._ PSALMS 107 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Examples of Men's Straits, leading to Prayer; and of Jehovah's Deliverance, calling for Praise. ANALYSIS...
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: BECAUSE THEY REBELLED AGAINST THE WORDS OF GOD. There is in the Hebrew a play upon similar sounds - Himª...
BOOK 5 This book, which seems originally to have been joined with Book 4, contains forty-four Pss., the vast majority of which are of late date. The contents of these Pss. are a surer guide to the per...
THE WORDS OF GOD] as declared by His prophets....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ INTRODUCTION Here are some of the things that you should know as you read the psalms in this book. 1. At the top of each psalm (say it "sarm") is a title in DARK...
כִּֽי ־הִמְר֥וּ אִמְרֵי ־אֵ֑ל וַ עֲצַ֖ת עֶלְי
Psalms 107:1 NOTWITHSTANDING the division of Books which separates Psalm evil from the two preceding, it is a pendant to these. The "gathering from among the heathen" prayed for in Psalms 106:41 has h...
WE now begin the fifth and last book of the Psalter. In this book the music is richest and fullest. It begins in this psalm on the fundamental notes, and rises through major and minor, by the way of t...
Because they (d) rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: (d) Then the true way to obey God is to follow his express commandment: also by this all are exhorted t...
Here is another striking representation, whether considered with respect to God's providence or his grace, to show the miseries of our nature by the fall. How do souls groan in their prison-houses! Wh...
11._Because they rebelled _In assigning the cause of their afflictions he corrects the false impressions of those persons who imagine that these happen by chance. Were they to reflect on the judgments...
BOOK 5 - PSALMS 107-150 In the fifth Book the people are looked at as brought back, and a general survey of God's ways taken, with a kind of divine commentary on it all, ending, as all His ways surel...
BECAUSE THEY REBELLED AGAINST THE WORDS OF GOD,.... All afflictions, as captivity and imprisonment, are generally for sin; which is a rebellion against God, and a transgression of his laws. Adam rebel...
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: Ver. 11. _Because they rebelled against the words of God_] Sin is at the bottom of all men's miseries, as t...
_Such as sit in darkness_, &c. In a disconsolate and forlorn condition, in dark prisons or dungeons; _bound in affliction and iron_ In afflicting or grievous irons: or, _in the cords of affliction_, a...
The second paragraph treats of captives....
because they rebelled against the words of God, proclaimed for their salvation, AND CONTEMNED THE COUNSEL OF THE MOST HIGH, their rejection of God's gracious purposes in their behalf, combined with bl...
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 mu...
AGAINST THE WORDS OF GOD; against God's commands, made known either, 1. By his written word delivered to the Jews, of which the Gentiles were not ignorant, which therefore they should have diligently...
Psalms 107:11 rebelled H4784 (H8689) words H561 God H410 despised H5006 (H8804) counsel H6098 High H5945...
The psalmist exhorteth the redeemed, in praising God, to observe the different forms of his mercy. He views the chosen people as travelers, captives, sick men, and seamen, and in each of these classes...
Psalms 107:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ Because we are sinners God's goodness takes the form of mercy. Mercy this was what we wanted; therefore,...
Psalms 107:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In the heading of this Psalm we are reminded that the psalmist here exhorts the redeemed, in praising God...
CONTENTS: God's wisdom, power and goodness celebrated. Man's deplorable forgetfulness of His mercies. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who have no special matter for praise may furnish t...
This psalm begins the fifth and last book of the Hebrew psalter. It is divided into five parts or pauses, as it would seem, in the singing and the music. The character of the composition, though diver...
_O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy en-dureth for ever._ MEN AND MERCY I. Men consciously needing the mercy of Heaven. Morally, we are all distressed travellers, captives, in...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:1. With this psalm the members of the community call one another to give thanks for God’s enduring “steadfast love.” He has shown this to the people as a whole but also...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 107:10 The next group of exiles SAT IN DARKNESS AND IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH. These people suffered as captives (PRISONERS) and forced laborers (HARD LABOR,
INTRODUCTION Many expositors are of opinion that this Psalm was written to celebrate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile. This opinion is based chiefly on Psalms 107:2. But the Psalm as a...
EXPOSITION A SONG of thanksgiving, first for deliverance from the Babylonish captivity (Psalms 107:1), and then for other deliverances (Psalms 107:4), passing into a general account of God's provident...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 107:1-43. The hundred and seventh psalm begins with an exhortation to us to Give thanks unto the LORD (Psalms 107:1), And the basis for the thanksgiving is His...
1 Samuel 2:5; 2 Chronicles 25:15; 2 Chronicles 25:16; 2 Chronicles 33:10;...