Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 107:11
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
11. Their suffering was the punishment of sin. Cp. Psa 107:17 ; Psa 107:34. They resisted the commands of God (Psa 106:7; Psa 106:33; Psa 106:43); and blasphemously doubted or despised the wisdom and the goodness of His purposes for them. Cp. Pro 1:30; Isa 5:24; and for general illustration, 2Ch 36:16.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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 Dan 9:5-8.
And contemned the counsel – They despised the instructions of God. The law of God, at the same time that it is law, is of the nature of counsel, since it is indicative of what God regards as wise and good, and since it is the best advice that God can give to people. A just and righteous law, while it involves obligation to obey it, is also the best counsel that can be given, and implies that the highest wisdom would be shown in being obedient to it. God will command nothing which he would not advise, and which it would not be wisdom to obey.
Of the Most High – Of God, who, being supreme, has a right to rule over all, and to require that his laws shall be obeyed.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 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 authority, acted as if they were independent of heaven and earth, and broke out into open rebellion against him.
2. He counselled and exhorted them to return to him: but they contemned his advice, and turned his counsel into ridicule.
3. As lenient means were ineffectual, he visited them in judgment: hence it is added,
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Against the words of God; against Gods 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 inquired after and searched into, as the queen of Sheba came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and as divers of the heathens travelled into very remote parts to gain a more perfect knowledge of the arts and sciences; which will justly be laid to their charge, and condemn them for their neglect of that Divine wisdom which was treasured up in the Holy Scriptures. Or,
2. By the prophets, who sometimes were sent to the Gentiles. Or,
3. By the law and light of nature, and by its interpreters, their wise and learned philosophers, who delivered many excellent rules and precepts of piety and virtue, which were sufficient, though not for their salvation without Christ, yet for the conduct of their lives in a great measure, and to leave them without excuse for their gross disobedience thereunto.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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 rebelled against the words of God, not giving credit to them, but believing the words of the devil; and so brought himself and all his posterity into that state of darkness, captivity, and death, before described. Some understand this only of the light of nature, and the dictates of it, against which men rebel; but rather it designs any and every revelation of the will of God, either in the law or in the Gospel; disobedience to which is rebellion against the words of God, and is highly resented by him.
And contemned the counsel of the most High; the advice he gives in his law, and by his prophets, what to do, and what to avoid: and which he gives by the ministers of the word, in his Gospel and in his ordinances; which are both called his counsel, Lu 7:30, the contempt of which is very displeasing to him, Pr 1:25.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
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 of God, they would at once perceive that there was nothing like chance or fortune in the government of the world. Moreover, until men are persuaded that all their troubles come upon them by the appointment of God, it will never come into their minds to supplicate him for deliverance. Farther, when the prophet assigns the reason for their afflictions, he is not to be regarded as speaking of those persons as if they were notoriously wicked, but he is to be considered as calling upon the afflicted carefully to examine some particular parts of their life, and although no one accuse them, to look into their hearts, where they will always discover the true origin of all the miseries which overtake them. Nor does he only charge them with having merely sinned, but with having rebelled against the word of God, thus intimating that the best and only regulation for our lives consists in yielding a prompt obedience to his commandments. When, therefore, sheer necessity compels those who are in this manner convicted to cry unto God, they must be insensate indeed, if they do not acknowledge that the deliverance which, contrary to their expectation, they receive, comes immediately from God. For brazen gates and iron bars are spoken of for the purpose of enhancing the benefit; as if he said, the chains of perpetual slavery have been broken asunder.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(11) Contemned.This word is an old Mosaic designation for the provocation offered by the chosen people (Num. 14:11; Num. 14:23), as well as for the abhorrence shown by Jehovah for their sin (Deu. 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.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
11. Because they rebelled See the histories of the Kings referred to Psa 107:10, and compare 2Ch 36:14-21.
Contemned the counsel of the Most High Treated with contempt his declared purpose to punish transgression, of which he had fully forewarned them, as in Deu 28:15-68; Isaiah 1, etc. But the word “counsel,” here, may mean the fixed plan of God respecting Israel, embracing the whole scheme of their national and church life, in its relation to the ultimate redemptive economy of God. This high calling they had overlooked and despised.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 107:11. Because they rebelled Mudge reads this and the next verse in a parenthesis: (Because they had rebelled, &c. Psa 107:12. And so he hath brought down their heart with pain; they are fallen without a helper.) Psa 107:13. Yet when they cry unto the Lord, &c.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Psa 107:11 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 the procreant cause thereof; for God afflicteth not willingly, nor grieveth the children of men, Lam 3:33 , but they rebel against his words written in the Scriptures, or, at least, in their hearts; and so he is concerned in point of honour to subdue them.
And contemned the counsel
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
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.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Because: Psa 68:6, Psa 68:18, Psa 106:43, Isa 63:10, Isa 63:11, Lam 3:39-42, Lam 5:15-17
contemned: Psa 73:24, Psa 113:7-9, Psa 119:24, 2Ch 25:15, 2Ch 25:16, 2Ch 33:10, Pro 1:25, Pro 1:30, Pro 1:31, 1Sa 2:5-8, Isa 5:19, Jer 44:16, Luk 7:30, Luk 16:14, Act 20:27, Rom 1:28
Reciprocal: 1Sa 15:23 – rebellion 2Sa 3:34 – hands 2Ki 25:7 – bound him Jer 39:7 – chains Lam 1:18 – for I Rev 3:18 – counsel
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
107:11 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 to descend into themselves as none are punished but for their sins.