11. Because they had rebelled against the words of ·God and had despised the counsel of the Most High; ...
12. And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:
13. Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses;
14. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.
15. Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
16. For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.
17. Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;