because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

Numbers 15:31
He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him."

2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Psalm 5:10
Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

Psalm 73:24
You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.

Psalm 78:40
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Psalm 106:7
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Psalm 106:13
Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

Psalm 106:33
For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

Proverbs 1:25
because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Lamentations 3:42
"We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven."

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: