The Lord nullifies the plan of nations; He frustrates the plans of peoples.

耶和华使列国的筹算归于无有，使众民的思念无有功效。

耶和华使列国的筹算归于无有，使万民的计谋全无功效。

耶和华使列国的筹算归于无有，使万民的计谋全无功效。

祂挫败列国的谋算，拦阻列邦的计划。

耶和华破坏列国的谋略，使万民的计划挫败。

耶和华破坏列国的谋略，挫败万民的意念。

耶和華使列國的籌算歸於無有，使眾民的思念無有功效。

耶和華使列國的籌算歸於無有，使萬民的計謀全無功效。

耶和華使列國的籌算歸於無有，使萬民的計謀全無功效。

祂挫敗列國的謀算，攔阻列邦的計劃。

耶和華破壞列國的謀略，使萬民的計劃挫敗。

永恆主破壞列國的計謀，使萬族之民所設計的沒有功效。

耶和華破壞列國的謀略，挫敗萬民的意念。

耶和華敗列邦之謀、廢諸民之志兮、

異邦人設謀、耶和華敗之、使計不成兮。

列國設謀、為主所敗、異邦定計、為主所破、

列國與兆民千算亦何益。

The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.

The Lord blocks the sinful plans of the nations. He keeps them from doing what they want to do.

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations and thwarts all their schemes.

The LORD frustrates the counsel of the nations; he thwarts the plans of the peoples.

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.

Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations; He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

The LORD frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.

Causing the omens of diviners to fail, Making fools of fortune tellers; Causing wise men to turn back And making their knowledge ridiculous,

He frustrates the schemes of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.He captures the wise by their own cleverness, And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.

There is no wisdom, no understanding, And no plan against the Lord.

Now someone informed David, saying,“ Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said,“ Lord, please make the advice of Ahithophel foolish.”

“ Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; And listen, all remote places of the earth. Get ready, yet be shattered; Get ready, yet be shattered.Devise a plan, but it will fail; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us.”

Why are the nations restless And the peoples plotting in vain?The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers conspire together Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,“ Let’s tear their shackles apart And throw their ropes away from us!”He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them.

Do not grant, Lord, the desires of the wicked; Do not bring about his evil planning, so that they are not exalted. Selah

Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; so he died and was buried in his father’s grave.

The nations have sunk down into the pit which they have made; In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,“ Let’s go up against Judah and terrorize it, and take it for ourselves by assault and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,”this is what the Lord God says:“ It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.

Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them; And I will confuse their strategy, So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead, And to mediums and spiritists.

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, otherwise they will multiply, and in the event of war, they will also join those who hate us, and fight against us and depart from the land.”So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they dreaded the sons of Israel.

The officials of Zoan are mere fools; The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh,“ I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the Lord of armies Has planned against Egypt.The officials of Zoan have turned out to be fools, The officials of Memphis are deluded; Those who are the cornerstone of her tribes Have led Egypt astray.The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of distortion; They have led Egypt astray in all that it does, As a drunken person staggers in his vomit.

Shout for joy, you heavens, for the Lord has done it! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth; Break into a shout of jubilation, you mountains, Forest, and every tree in it; For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, And in Israel He shows His glory.

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to foil the good advice of Ahithophel, in order for the Lord to bring disaster on Absalom.

But if you return to the city and say to Absalom,‘ I will be your servant, O king; even as I was your father’s servant in time past, so now I will also be your servant,’ then you can foil the advice of Ahithophel for me.