¹¹ If they plan evil against you,
    if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.^(A)

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.

²⁵ who frustrates the omens of soothsayers
    and makes fools of diviners;
who turns back the wise
    and makes their knowledge foolish;^(A)

³⁰ No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
    can avail against the Lord.^(A)

⁸ Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
    do not further their evil plot.^[a] Selah^(A)

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.”