For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Parallel translations
- WEB For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
- BSB The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
- NKJV For the Lord of hosts has purposed, And who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn it back?”
- NASB For the Lord of armies has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”
- NLT The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has spoken— who can change his plans? When his hand is raised, who can stop him?”
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Quick answer
Since the LORD of Armies has planned it, no one can thwart his outstretched hand. God's purposes cannot be reversed by any power.
Overview
The chapter's section on Assyria closes with a ringing affirmation of God's irresistible sovereignty. What he has decided, none can annul. This bedrock truth assures believers that God's saving purposes in Christ are equally unstoppable.
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- Isa 43:13Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
- Job 23:13But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
- 2 Chr 20:6And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
- Prov 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
- Job 9:12Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
- Prov 19:21There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
- Rom 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
- Ps 33:11The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
- Rom 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
- Jer 4:28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
- Isa 46:11Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
- Isa 23:9The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
- Job 40:8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- Dan 4:31–35While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
- Isa 9:12The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Jer 51:59The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
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