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And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind was great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was always only evil.
to devise designs, to work with gold and with silver and with bronze,
and to devise designs, to work with the gold and with the silver and with the bronze,
and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every kind of design craftsmanship.
He has filled them with skill of heart to do every work of a craftsman and a designer and an embroiderer with the blue and with the purple, with the crimson yarns and with the fine linen and a weaver; they are doers of every kind of craftsmanship and devisers of designs.
For we must certainly die, and we are as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.
“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every plan and all thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.
O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this forever as a plan and thoughts of the heart of your people, and establish their heart toward you.
a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father.
And he made siege machines in Jerusalem designed by skillful men to be set upon the towers and upon the corners to shoot arrows and large slingstones. And his fame went out far, for he was helped marvelously until he was strong.
And Esther again spoke before the king, and she fell before his feet and wept, pleading for his grace to avert Haman the Agagite’s evil plan and the plot that he devised against the Jews.
and she said, “If it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him, and if the king is pleased with this matter, and I have his approval, let an edict be written to revoke the letters of the plans of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the provinces of the king.
But when it came to the attention of the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.
He is frustrating the devices of the crafty,
and their hands do not achieve success.
“Look, I know your thoughts
and the schemes you devise against me.
Yahweh brings to nothing the plan of nations;
he frustrates the intents of peoples.
The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever,
the intents of his heart from one generation to the next.
Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done—
your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us.
There is none to compare with you.
If I tried to proclaim and tell of them,
they would be too numerous to count.
All day they twist my words;
all their thoughts are against me for evil.
How great are your deeds, O Yahweh;
how very deep are your thoughts.
Yahweh knows the thoughts of humankind,
that they are to no purpose.
a devising heart, plans of deception,
feet that hurry to run to evil,
The thoughts of the righteous are just;
the advice of the wicked is treacherous.
Plans go wrong when there is no counsel,
but with many advisors it will succeed.
Plans of evil are an abomination of Yahweh,
but gracious words are pure.
Commit your work to Yahweh,
and your plans will be established.
Many plans are in the heart of a man,
but the purpose of Yahweh will be established.
A plan will be established by advice,
and with guidance make war.
The plans of the diligent only lead to abundance,
but all who are hasty, only to want.
Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the man of sin his thoughts.
And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him,
and to our God, for he will forgive manifold.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,”
declares Yahweh.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Their feet run to evil,
and they hasten to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
devastation and destruction are in their highways.
I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people,
those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good,
“And I—their works and thoughts!—am about to come to gather all nations and tongues,
and they shall come and see my glory.
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem,
so that you may be saved.
How long will your thoughts of mischief
dwell in your inner part?
Hear, O earth,
look, I am about to bring disaster to this people,
the fruit of their plans,
because they have not listened attentively to my words,
and my teaching, they have rejected it also.
And I was like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter,
and I did not know that they planned plans against me, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
“So now then, say, please, to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Look, I am preparing evil against you, and I am planning a plan against you. Please turn back, each one from his evil way, and walk rightly in your ways and your deeds.” ’
But they will say, ‘It is hopeless, for we will go after our own plans, and each one of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
Then they said, “Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from the priest, nor advice from the wise man, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us bring charges against him, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words.”
For I know the plans that I am planning concerning you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.
Therefore hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom,
and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman.
Surely they will drag them away,
the little ones of the flock.
Surely he will cause to be desolated over them
their grazing place.
Flee! Wander far away! Get down low!
O inhabitants of Hazor,” declares Yahweh.
“For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you.
And he has schemed a scheme against you.
Therefore hear the plan of Yahweh
that he has planned against Babylon,
and his plans
that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans.
Surely they will drag them away,
the little ones of the flock.
Surely he will cause their grazing place
to be desolate over them.
And the land quakes and writhes,
for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon as a horror,
without inhabitant.
You have seen all their vengeance,
all their plans against me.
You have heard their disgrace, O Yahweh,
all their plans against me.
“ ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “And then on that day, things will come up on your mind, and you will devise evil plans.
In a time of ease and in the rich parts of the province, he will come and he will do what his predecessors did not do; he will distribute plunder and spoil and possessions to them, and he will devise his plans against fortifications, but only for a time.
And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south and with a much greater and stronger army; but he will not succeed, for they will devise plans against him.
But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh,
and they do not understand his plan,
that he has gathered them as sheaves
to his threshing floor.