Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.
“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him. For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.
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