²¹ Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.^(A)

⁹ In their hearts humans plan their course,
    but the Lord establishes their steps.^(A)

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

16 To humans belong the plans of the heart,
    but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.^(A)

¹⁰ The Lord foils^(A) the plans^(B) of the nations;^(C)
    he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
¹¹ But the plans of the Lord stand firm^(D) forever,
    the purposes^(E) of his heart through all generations.

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.’

³⁰ There is no wisdom,^(A) no insight, no plan
    that can succeed against the Lord.^(B)

²⁶ This is the plan^(A) determined for the whole world;
    this is the hand^(B) stretched out over all nations.
²⁷ For the Lord Almighty has purposed,^(C) and who can thwart him?
    His hand^(D) is stretched out, and who can turn it back?^(E)