Psalms 107:17

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They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 3:39 : 39 Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?
  • Isa 57:17-18 : 17 I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn. 18 I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them. I will lead them, and I will provide comfort to them and those who mourn with them.
  • Isa 65:6-7 : 6 Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, 7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” says the LORD.“Because they burned incense on the mountains and offended me on the hills, I will punish them in full measure.”
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the LORD your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Num 11:33-34 : 33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. 34 So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.
  • Num 12:10-13 : 10 After the cloud had departed from above the tent, there was Miriam, leprous like snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and realized that she was leprous! 11 The Intercession of Moses So Aaron said to Moses,“O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned! 12 Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!” 13 Then Moses cried to the LORD,“Heal her now, O God.”
  • Num 21:5-9 : 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.” 6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died. 7 Then the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that he would take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The LORD said to Moses,“Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
  • Ps 38:1-8 : 1 A psalm of David, written to get God’s attention. O LORD, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury! 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down. 3 My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin. 4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear. 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins. 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning. 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick. 8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 7:7 : 7 and I saw among the naive– I discerned among the youths– a young man who lacked sense.
  • Prov 7:22 : 22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 107:18-19
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    18They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.

    19They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Prov 19:3
    75%

    3A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • Ps 107:27-28
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    27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

    28They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Ps 107:16
    74%

    16For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

  • Ps 107:10-13
    4 verses
    74%

    10They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

    11because they had rebelled against God’s commands, and rejected the instructions of the Most High.

    12So he used suffering to humble them; they stumbled and no one helped them up.

    13They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Jer 5:4
    74%

    4I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.

  • Prov 1:32
    73%

    32For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • Ps 107:39
    73%

    39As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

  • Prov 14:8-9
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    73%

    8The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

    9Fools mock at reparation, but among the upright there is favor.

  • Prov 19:29
    72%

    29Penalties have been prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.

  • Ps 94:8
    72%

    8Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

  • Prov 17:25
    72%

    25A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Prov 17:21
    72%

    21Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 26:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Like a thorn has gone up into the hand of a drunkard, so a proverb has gone up into the mouth of a fool.

    10Like an archer who wounds at random, so is the one who hires a fool or hires any passerby.

  • Ps 53:1
    71%

    1For the music director; according to the machalath style; a well-written song by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

  • 2 Cor 11:19
    71%

    19For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly.

  • Ps 38:5
    71%

    5My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.

  • Ps 14:1
    71%

    1For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

  • Prov 17:16
    71%

    16What’s the point of a fool having money in hand to buy wisdom, when his head is empty?

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

    7The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his life.

  • Prov 14:33
    71%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is not known in the inner parts of fools.

  • Ps 107:5-6
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    70%

    5They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

    6They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

  • Prov 22:15
    70%

    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

  • Eccl 4:5
    70%

    5The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.

  • Jer 4:22
    70%

    22The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

  • Rom 1:22
    70%

    22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

  • Prov 26:7
    70%

    7Like legs dangle uselessly from the lame, so a proverb dangles in the mouth of fools.

  • Eccl 10:3
    70%

    3Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, and shows everyone what a fool he is.

  • Ps 119:67
    70%

    67Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.

  • Prov 13:16
    70%

    16Every shrewd person acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

  • Ps 92:6
    70%

    6The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

  • Prov 26:3
    70%

    3A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

  • Job 36:8
    70%

    8But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by the cords of affliction,

  • Job 12:17
    70%

    17He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

  • Eccl 10:15
    70%

    15The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.

  • Ps 107:34
    69%

    34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

  • Job 24:12
    69%

    12From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

  • Job 30:8
    69%

    8Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

  • Ps 106:43
    69%

    43Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.

  • Jer 30:15
    69%

    15Why do you complain about your injuries, that your pain is incurable? I have done all this to you because your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much.

  • Prov 12:15
    69%

    15The way of a fool is right in his own opinion, but the one who listens to advice is wise.