Psalm 33:10
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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.
Psalm 21:11
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11 For they intended evil against You;
They devised a plot which they are not able to (A)perform.
Job 5:12-13
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12 (A)He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.
13 He catches the (B)wise in their own craftiness,
And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them.
Isaiah 44:25
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25 Who (A)frustrates the signs (B)of the babblers,
And drives diviners mad;
Who turns wise men backward,
(C)And makes their knowledge foolishness;
Proverbs 21:30
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30 (A)There is no wisdom or understanding
Or counsel against the Lord.
2 Samuel 15:31
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31 Then someone told David, saying, (A)“Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray, (B)turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
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Isaiah 8:9-10
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9 “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.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 8:10 Heb. Immanuel
Psalm 2:1-4
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The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom(A)
2 Why (B)do the [a]nations [b]rage,
And the people plot a [c]vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the (C)rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His (D)Anointed,[d] saying,
3 “Let (E)us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens (F)shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
Psalm 140:8
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8 Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
Do not further his wicked scheme,
(A)Lest they be exalted. Selah
Psalm 9:15
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15 (A)The [a]nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
Footnotes
- Psalm 9:15 Gentiles
Isaiah 7:5-7
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5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah and [a]trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”— 7 thus says the Lord God:
(A)“It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 7:6 cause a sickening dread
2 Samuel 17:23
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23 Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to (A)his house, to his city. Then he [a]put his (B)household in order, and (C)hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his father’s tomb.
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- 2 Samuel 17:23 Lit. gave charge concerning his house
Isaiah 19:3
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3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst;
I will destroy their counsel,
And they will (A)consult the idols and the charmers,
The mediums and the sorcerers.
Isaiah 44:23
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23 (A)Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it!
Shout, you lower parts of the earth;
Break forth into singing, you mountains,
O forest, and every tree in it!
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
And (B)glorified Himself in Israel.
Exodus 1:10-12
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10 (A)come, let us (B)deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them (C)to afflict them with their (D)burdens. And they built for Pharaoh (E)supply cities, Pithom (F)and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.
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Isaiah 19:11-14
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11 Surely the princes of (A)Zoan are fools;
Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel.
(B)How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise,
The son of ancient kings?”
12 (C)Where are they?
Where are your wise men?
Let them tell you now,
And let them know what the Lord of hosts has (D)purposed against Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools;
(E)The princes of [a]Noph are deceived;
They have also [b]deluded Egypt,
Those who are the [c]mainstay of its tribes.
14 The Lord has mingled (F)a perverse spirit in her midst;
And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 19:13 Ancient Memphis
- Isaiah 19:13 Lit. caused to stagger
- Isaiah 19:13 cornerstone
2 Samuel 17:14
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14 So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.” For (A)the Lord had purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring disaster on Absalom.
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2 Samuel 15:34
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34 But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, (A)‘I will be your servant, O king; as I was your father’s servant previously, so I will now also be your servant,’ then you may defeat the counsel of Ahithophel for me.
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