Isaiah 10:23

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

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

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

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.

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

Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

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.

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.

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,

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?

He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”

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.

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

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.

Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “I have anointed you king over Israel.” ’ Then open the door, flee, and don’t wait.”

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’ ”

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.’

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

Who put him in charge of the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world?

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.”

He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

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

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

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

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea.

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

For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut through bars of iron.

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,

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”

who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.

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.

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.

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?”

A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

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

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”

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?”

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”

“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?

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.