Whatever you[a] plot against the Lord,
he will bring it to complete destruction;(A)
oppression will not rise up a second time.
10 For they will be consumed
like entangled thorns,(B)
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.[b]
11 One has gone out from you,[c]
who plots evil against the Lord,
and is a wicked counselor.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:9 = Nineveh
  2. 1:10 Hb obscure
  3. 1:11 Possibly Nineveh

Why are you scheming against the Lord?
    He will destroy you with one blow;
    he won’t need to strike twice!
10 His enemies, tangled like thornbushes
    and staggering like drunks,
    will be burned up like dry stubble in a field.
11 Who is this wicked counselor of yours
    who plots evil against the Lord?

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