God settles the solitary in a house; leading forth prisoners mightily, also them that act provokingly, [even] them that dwell in tombs.

You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive, You have received gifts among men, yea, for [they were] rebellious, that You might dwell among them.

Many a time He delivered them; but they provoked Him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities.

But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.

Then he remembered the days of old, [saying], Where is He that brought up from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? Where is He that put His Holy Spirit in them?

MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin?

Let us lift up our hearts with our hand to the lofty One in heaven.

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

You have guided me by Your counsel, and You have taken me to Yourself with glory.

who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

who settles the barren [woman] in a house, [as] a mother rejoicing over children.

For Your testimonies are my meditation, and Your statutes are my counselors.

And the anger of the Lord came upon Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, Why have you sought the gods of the people, which have not rescued their own people out of your hand?

And it came to pass when the prophet was speaking to him, that he said to him, Have I made you the king's counselor? Take heed lest you be scourged! And the prophet became silent, and said, I know that [God] is disposed against you to destroy you, because you have done this thing, and have not hearkened to my counsel.

And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they hearkened not.

but you disdained my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs;

neither would they attend to my counsels, but derided my reproofs.

Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and shall be filled with their own ungodliness.

They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has grown feeble.

The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; He brings low, and lifts up.

who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see [it]; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know [it].

[As for] the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and they were mocking Him.

For I did not draw back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;