The plan of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation.
Parallel translations
- WEB The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
- 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.
- NLT But the Lord’s plans stand firm forever; his intentions can never be shaken.
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Quick answer
In contrast to human plans, the Lord's counsel stands firm forever, to all generations.
Overview
Set against the failing schemes of nations, God's own counsel endures unchangeably through every generation. His purposes are stable and eternal. This unshakable plan finds its center in the gospel, God's eternal purpose to save a people through his Son.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- 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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