(A)What do you [a]conspire against the Lord?
(B)He will make an utter end of it.
Affliction will not rise up a second time.

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  1. Nahum 1:9 Or devise

11 For they intended evil against You;
They devised a plot which they are not able to (A)perform.

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30 (A)There is no wisdom or understanding
Or counsel against the Lord.

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10 (A)The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.

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(A)casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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11 From you comes forth one
Who plots evil against the Lord,
A [a]wicked counselor.

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  1. Nahum 1:11 Lit. counselor of Belial

The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom(A)

Why (B)do the [a]nations [b]rage,
And the people plot a [c]vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the (C)rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His (D)Anointed,[d] saying,
“Let (E)us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”

He who sits in the heavens (F)shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.

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  1. Psalm 2:1 Gentiles
  2. Psalm 2:1 throng tumultuously
  3. Psalm 2:1 worthless or empty
  4. Psalm 2:2 Christ, Commissioned One, Heb. Messiah

10 ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: 11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of (A)unwalled villages; I will (B)go to a peaceful people, (C)who dwell [a]safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’—

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  1. Ezekiel 38:11 securely

25 who [a]by the mouth of Your servant David have said:

(A)‘Why did the nations rage,
And the people plot vain things?
26 The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the Lord and against His Christ.’

27 “For (B)truly against (C)Your holy Servant Jesus, (D)whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 (E)to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

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  1. Acts 4:25 NU through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father, Your servant David,

“Be(A) shattered, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces!
Give ear, all you from far countries.
Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces;
Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.
10 (B)Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
Speak the word, (C)but it will not stand,
(D)For [a]God is with us.”

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  1. Isaiah 8:10 Heb. Immanuel

Then Abishai said to David, (A)“God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him [a]at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!”

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  1. 1 Samuel 26:8 Or one time

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

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10 But Amasa did not notice the sword that was in Joab’s hand. And (A)he struck him with it (B)in the stomach, and his entrails poured out on the ground; and he did not strike him again. Thus he died.

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

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