Psalms 83:4

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.

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

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

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.

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

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 heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.

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,

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

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.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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.”

“ ‘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.

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

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.”

A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

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

As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

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

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

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.”

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.”

Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.

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

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”

“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

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.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.

The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

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

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

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.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

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

He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

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

But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

For the Lord will not cast off forever.

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

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

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.

Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

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

who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”

The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”

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