And [as for] the son of Aram, and the son of Remaliah, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, [saying],

thus says the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.

And it was reported to David, saying, Ahithophel also [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord my God, disconcert, I pray, the counsel of Ahithophel.

And the saying [was] right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his donkey, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

Why did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers gathered themselves together, against the Lord, and against His Christ;

The Lord frustrates the counsels of the nations; He brings to nought the reasonings of the people, and brings to nought the counsels of princes.

But the counsel of the Lord endures forever, the thoughts of His heart from generation to generation.

For the end, for the sons of Korah; A Psalm concerning secret things. God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause.

Against Your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against Your saints.

For they have taken counsel together with one consent; they have made a confederacy against You;

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

Do to them as to Midian, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the Brook of Kishon.

Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna; [even] all their princes,

O my God, make them as a wheel, as stubble before the face of the wind.

so shall You persecute them with Your tempest, and trouble them in Your anger.

Let them be ashamed and troubled forevermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.

There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.

Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? The Lord has not commanded it.

What do you devise against the Lord? He will make a complete end: He will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.

Out of you shall proceed a device against the Lord, counseling evil things hostile [to Him].

And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if the counsel or this work is of men, it will come to nothing;

but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it--lest you even be found to fight against God."

Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call His name Emmanuel.

For a Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, whose government is upon His shoulder; and His name is called the Messenger of great counsel; for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to Him.

Fear not; for I am with you; wander not; for I am your God, who has strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with My righteous right hand.

And if you should go forth to war against your enemies, and should see a horse and rider, and a people more numerous than yourself; you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God [is] with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Not a man shall stand against you all the days of your life; and as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you, and I will not fail you, or neglect you.

And behold, the Lord and His priests are with us at our head, and the signal trumpets to sound an alarm over us. Children of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of our fathers; for you shall not prosper.

And he set the graven [image], the molten [statue], the idol which he made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will take heed to do all things which I have commanded them, according to all the law and the ordinances and the judgments [given] by the hand of Moses.

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause.

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper.

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."

teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

For if you live according to the flesh you shall die; but if by [the] Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who [can be] against us?

You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.