Because they rebelled against God’s word, and scorned the counsel of the Most High,
The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. Manasseh’s Conversion.
But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s anger against his people blazed up beyond remedy.
Many times did he rescue them, but they kept rebelling and scheming and were brought low by their own guilt.
Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not remember your manifold mercy; they defied the Most High at the Red Sea.
Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
God’s chariots were myriad, thousands upon thousands; from Sinai the Lord entered the holy place.
Father of the fatherless, defender of widows— God in his holy abode,
With your counsel you guide me, and at the end receive me with honor.
How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.
Because you disdained all my counsel, and my reproof you ignored—
Who say, “Let him make haste, let him speed his work, that we may see it; On with the plan of the Holy One of Israel! let it come to pass, that we may know it!”
“Regarding the word you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not listening to you.
The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him.
but the Pharisees and scholars of the law, who were not baptized by him, rejected the plan of God for themselves.)
for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.