So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail;
He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered. Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” thus says the Lord God: “‘It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end. They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,
If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.”
When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.
And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you are about to do with these men.
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