New Revised Standard Version
for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.

Contemporary English Version
because you had rebelled against God Most High and refused his advice.

New American Bible
Because they rebelled against God’s word, and scorned the counsel of the Most High,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:

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.