Romans 9:19

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.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

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

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

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

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

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

However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

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?”

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

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

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

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.

But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”

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.

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”

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.

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.”

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

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

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

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

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

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

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.

So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

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,

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

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.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

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

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.

Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

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

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

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

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.