Job 23:13

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

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.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

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

“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.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

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

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

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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.”

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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?”

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

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

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

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

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!”

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

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?

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

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

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

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,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

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

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

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

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

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.

“ ‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

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.

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?”

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.”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

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:

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,

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

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

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:

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.

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.

Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

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

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

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

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

“Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house.

But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

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

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

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.