Ecclesiastes 1:15

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.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

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

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

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

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

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

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

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.

Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

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

Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

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

for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

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

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

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 will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.

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.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

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.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

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,

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

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

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

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

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

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

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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.

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

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

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

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

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

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,

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

“ ‘ “ ‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.