What (A)do you plot against the Lord?
    (B)He will make a complete end;
    trouble will not rise up a second time.

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11 Though they plan evil against you,
    though they (A)devise mischief, they will not succeed.

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30 (A)No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
    can avail against the Lord.

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10 The Lord (A)brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
    he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

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We destroy arguments and (A)every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to (B)obey Christ,

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11 From you came one
    (A)who plotted evil against the Lord,
    a worthless counselor.

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The Reign of the Lord's Anointed

(A)Why do (B)the nations rage[a]
    and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and against his (C)Anointed, saying,
“Let us (D)burst their bonds apart
    and cast away their cords from us.”

He who (E)sits in the heavens (F)laughs;
    the Lord holds them in derision.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 2:1 Or nations noisily assemble

10 “Thus says the Lord God: On that day, (A)thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme 11 and say, ‘I will go up against (B)the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon (C)the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’

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25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant,[a] said by the Holy Spirit,

(A)“‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
    and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and (B)the rulers were gathered together,
    against the Lord and against his (C)Anointed’[b]

27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your (D)holy servant Jesus, (E)whom you anointed, both (F)Herod and (G)Pontius Pilate, along (H)with the Gentiles and (I)the peoples of Israel, 28 (J)to do whatever your hand and (K)your plan had predestined to take place.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 4:25 Or child; also verses 27, 30
  2. Acts 4:26 Or Christ

Be broken,[a] you peoples, and (A)be shattered;[b]
    give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
    strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
    speak a word, (B)but it will not stand,
    for God (C)is with us.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:9 Or Be evil
  2. Isaiah 8:9 Or dismayed
  3. Isaiah 8:10 The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel

Then Abishai said to David, (A)“God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.”

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12 On that day I will fulfill against Eli (A)all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

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10 But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab's hand. (A)So Joab struck him with it (B)in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died.

Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

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