Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.(A)
Psalm 21:11
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11 If they plan evil against you,
if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.(A)
Isaiah 44:25
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25 who frustrates the omens of soothsayers
and makes fools of diviners;
who turns back the wise
and makes their knowledge foolish;(A)
Job 5:12-13
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12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.(A)
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
Proverbs 21:30
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30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.(A)
2 Samuel 15:31
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31 David was told that Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, “O Lord, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”(A)
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Isaiah 8:9-10
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9 Take notice,[a] you peoples, and be dismayed;
listen, all you far countries;
gird yourselves and be dismayed![b]
10 Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to naught;
speak a word, but it will not stand,
for God is with us.”(A)
Psalm 2:1-4
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Psalm 2
God’s Promise to His Anointed
1 Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?(A)
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,(B)
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord has them in derision.(C)
Psalm 140:8
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Footnotes
- 140.8 Heb adds they are exalted
Psalm 9:15
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15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.(A)
2 Samuel 17:23
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23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.(A)
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Isaiah 7:5-7
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5 Because Aram—with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah—has plotted evil against you, saying, 6 ‘Let us go up against Judah and terrify it[a] and conquer it for ourselves and make the son of Tabeel king in it’; 7 therefore thus says the Lord God:
It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.(A)
Footnotes
- 7.6 Or cut it off
Isaiah 19:3
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3 the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound their plans;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead
and the ghosts and the familiar spirits;(A)
Isaiah 44:23
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23 Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it;
shout, O depths of the earth;
break forth into singing, O mountains,
O forest and every tree in it!
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob
and will be glorified in Israel.(A)
Isaiah 19:11-14
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11 Clearly the princes of Zoan are foolish;
the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the sages,
a descendant of ancient kings”?(A)
12 Where now are your sages?
Let them tell you and make known
what the Lord of hosts has planned against Egypt.(B)
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools,
and the princes of Memphis are deluded;
those who are the cornerstones of its tribes
have led Egypt astray.(C)
14 The Lord has poured into them[a]
a spirit of confusion;
and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings
as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.(D)
Footnotes
- 19.14 Gk Compare Tg: Heb it
Exodus 1:10-12
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10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.(A) 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
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2 Samuel 17:14
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14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring ruin on Absalom.(A)
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2 Samuel 15:34
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34 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.(A)
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