Psalms 21:11

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

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.

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

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

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

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

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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,

But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

“ ‘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.’

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

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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,

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

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

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

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

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

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.” ’

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

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

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

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

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

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”