Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:

because

Psalm 68:6,18 God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres. . . .

Psalm 106:43 Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

Isaiah 63:10,11 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. . . .

Lamentations 3:39-42 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? . . .

Lamentations 5:15-17 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning. . . .

contemned

Psalm 73:24 Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.

Psalm 113:7-9 Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill: . . .

Psalm 119:24 For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.

2 Chronicles 25:15,16 Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent a prophet to him, to say to him: Why hast thou adored gods that have not delivered their own people out of thy hand? . . .

2 Chronicles 33:10 And the Lord spoke to his people, and they would not hearken.

Proverbs 1:25,30,31 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared. . . .

1 Samuel 2:5-8 They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened. . . .

Isaiah 5:19 That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee:

Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him.

Luke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Acts 20:27 For I have not spread to declare unto you all, the counsel of God.

Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.