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 do you plot against the Lord?
    He will make an end;
    no adversary will rise up twice.(A)
10 Like thorns they are entangled;
    like drunkards they are drunk;
    they are consumed like dry straw.(B)
11 From you one has gone out
    who plots evil against the Lord,
    one who counsels wickedness.(C)

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