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

who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.

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.

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

And whatever counsel you shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatever word you shall speak, it shall not stand among you; for God is with us.

And I will cause judgment [to be] for hope, and My compassion shall be for [just] measures, and you that trust vainly in falsehood [shall fall]; for the storm shall by no means pass by you,

except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand; if the rushing storm should come upon you, you shall be beaten down by it.

Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord; you have framed counsel, not by Me, and covenants not by My Spirit, to add sins to sins;

For the protection of Pharaoh shall be to you a disgrace, and [there shall be] a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.

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

Therefore do we nullify the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish [the] law.

For if those who are of [the] law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise has been nullified,

For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants outside, and the young men from the streets.

And it shall be, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.

She that bore seven is spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced. I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.

Therefore deliver up their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword. Let their women be childless and widows, and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

and I will deliver you into the hands of them that seek you life, before whom you are afraid, into the hands of the Chaldeans.

[This translation omits this verse.]

And I will set My face against you, and you shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee, no one pursuing you.

The Lord shall give you up for slaughter before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.

And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive [them] away.

and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped. They shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,

And the carcasses of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather [them].

They shall die a grievous death. They shall not be lamented [over], nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky. They shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.

He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.

I will even give them to their enemies, and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of the sky and for the wild beasts of the earth.

And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants [to be] food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury [them].

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who ride on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great."

Then the Beast was apprehended, and with him the False Prophet who had performed the signs before him, by which he had deceived those who received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.