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11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
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Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
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;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)We are to take notice of the goodness of God towards prisoners and captives. Observe, 1. A description of this affliction. Prisoners are said to sit in darkness (Ps. 107:10), in dark dungeons, close prisons, which intimates that they are desolate and disconsolate; they sit in the shadow of death , which intimates not only great distress and trouble, but great danger. Prisoners are many times appoi…
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