Zechariah 6:1

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.

He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

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

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.

I will bring on Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds. There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.

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

When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

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

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

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

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

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

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.

The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.

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

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

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!”

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

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

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

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

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

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 will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

“ ‘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.’

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

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.

The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

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.

Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

“All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

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

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz.

Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire.”

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

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,

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

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

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?”

Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.

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?”

Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

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

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,

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.