Psalms 107:11

Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.

“ ‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land;” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Behold, they ask me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”

You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Even 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;

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.