Daniel 4:35

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?