¹⁰ Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;^(A)
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,^(B)
    for God is with us.^[a](C)

“Surely, as I have planned,^(B) so it will be,
    and as I have purposed, so it will happen.^(C)

¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled;
    your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.^(A)
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,^(B)
    you will be beaten down^(C) by it.

⁸ The grass withers and the flowers^(A) fall,
    but the word^(B) of our God endures^(C) forever.^(D)”

¹⁰ I make known the end from the beginning,^(A)
    from ancient times,^(B) what is still to come.^(C)
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,^(D)
    and I will do all that I please.’

“‘Why do the nations rage
    and the peoples plot in vain?