The good man obtains favor from Jehovah, but He will condemn a man of wicked devices.

And they said to one another, Behold, this master of dreams is coming!

Come now therefore, let us kill him and cast him into a pit; and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams!

but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this evil plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

For they intended evil against You; they devised a plot which they were not able to accomplish.

Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He restrains and frustrates the devices of the people.

The counsel of Jehovah stands forever, the thoughts of His heart from generation to generation.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.

Lo, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and break through the wall for ourselves, and set a king in the midst of it, the son of Tabeel.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, nor shall it come to pass.

He will go in peaceably, even into the rich places of the province. And he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He shall plunder and spoil and scatter goods among them. And he shall devise his plots against the strongholds, even for a time.

And he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south will be stirred up to battle with a great and very mighty army. But he shall not stand, for they will devise plots against him.

and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

But they said, Not during the Feast, that there not be an uproar among the people.

saying, Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, After three days I will rise.

Therefore, command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, that His disciples not come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, He has risen from the dead. So the last deception will be worse than the first.

The arrangement of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from Jehovah.

A man's heart devises his way, but Jehovah arranges his steps.

The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah; like rivers of water, He turns it wherever He pleases.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

And Joseph said to his brothers, Please come near to me. So they came near. And he said: I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

As for you, you had devised evil against me; but God had planned it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

But He is One, and who can turn Him back? And whatever His soul desires, that He does.

Jehovah of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so it shall come to pass; and as I have purposed, so it shall stand;

This is the purpose that is purposed upon all the earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

For Jehovah of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? And His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

declaring the end from the beginning, and from antiquity things which are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure;

And all those living in the earth are counted as nothing. And He does according to His will in the army of Heaven, and among those living in the earth. And no one is able to restrain His hand or say to Him, What are You doing?

For truly against Your holy Son Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

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

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it; lest you even be found to fight against God.

In Him also we have been assigned to an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, pledged it by an oath,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

and a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the Word, to which they also were appointed.

For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were set forth to this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.