Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Ver. 11. Because they rebelled against the words of God] Sin is at the bottom of all men's miseries, as the procreant cause thereof; for God afflicteth not willingly, nor grieveth the children of men, Lamentations 3:33, but they rebel against his words written in the Scriptures, or, at least, in their hearts; and so he is concerned in point of honour to subdue them.
And contemned the counsel] A foul fault. See Luke 7:30 .