The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Parallel translations
- KJV The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
- BSB The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
- NKJV The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations.
- NASB The plan of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation.
- NLT But the Lord’s plans stand firm forever; his intentions can never be shaken.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 19:21There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.
- Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
- Job 23:13But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
- Lam 3:37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
- Isa 55:8–9“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 14:24Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
- Jer 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
- Isa 14:27For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
- Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Ps 92:5How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
- Mic 4:12But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
- Acts 4:27–28“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together
- Acts 15:18All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’
- Ezek 38:10–23Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:
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