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Psalms 33:11
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The counsel of the Lord stands forever,the plans of his heart from generation to generation.
The counsel of the LORD stands fast forever, The thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
But the Lord 's plans will stand forever; his ideas will last from now on.
The Lord 's decisions stand forever; his plans abide throughout the ages.
The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The thoughts and plans of His heart through all generations.
The plan of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation.
The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, The thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsell of the Lord shall stand for euer, and the thoughts of his heart throughout all ages.
The counsel of Yahweh stands forever,The thoughts of His heart from generation to generation.
The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
But what the Lord has planned will stand forever. His thoughts never change.
But the counsel of Adonai stands forever, his heart's plans are for all generations.
The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.
But the Lord 's decisions are good forever. His plans are good for generation after generation.
The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
But his plans endure forever; his purposes last eternally.
The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever, the intents of his heart from one generation to the next.
Jehovah's counsel stands forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations.
But the coucell of the LORDE endureth, and the thoughtes of his hert from generacion to generacion.
The counsel of Jehovah standeth fast for ever, The thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations.
The counsaile of the Lord standeth for euer, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsayle of God shall endure for euer: and the thoughtes of his heart from generation to generation.
But the counsel of the Lord endures for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.
The counsel of the LORD standeth fast for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
But the counsel of the Lord dwellith with outen ende; the thouytis of his herte dwellen in generacioun and into generacioun.
The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, The thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations.
But the Lord 's plans stand firm forever; his intentions can never be shaken.
The plans of the Lord stand forever. The plans of His heart stand through the future of all people.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsel of Yahweh, to times age-abiding, shall stand, The devices of his heart, from generation to generation.
(32-11) But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The counsel: Job 23:13, Proverbs 19:21, Isaiah 14:24, Isaiah 14:27, Isaiah 46:10, Lamentations 3:37, Ezekiel 38:10-23, Daniel 4:37, Acts 4:27, Acts 4:28, Ephesians 1:11
thoughts: Psalms 92:5, Isaiah 55:8, Isaiah 55:9, Jeremiah 29:11, Micah 4:12
all generations: Heb. generation and generation, Acts 15:18
Reciprocal: Numbers 22:20 - but yet 2 Kings 19:25 - Hast thou not 2 Chronicles 11:4 - for this thing Nehemiah 4:15 - God Job 5:12 - disappointeth Psalms 135:6 - Whatsoever Ecclesiastes 3:14 - whatsoever Isaiah 7:7 - General Isaiah 8:10 - counsel Isaiah 25:1 - thy counsels Jeremiah 19:7 - I will make Jeremiah 44:28 - shall know Jeremiah 49:20 - the counsel Jeremiah 50:45 - hear Zechariah 6:1 - and the Zechariah 8:14 - As Matthew 2:8 - go Luke 2:6 - so Acts 5:38 - for Acts 27:1 - when Ephesians 1:9 - purposed Hebrews 6:17 - the immutability
Cross-References
The man got richer and richer, acquiring huge flocks, lots and lots of servants, not to mention camels and donkeys.
Then Esau looked around and saw the women and children: "And who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children that God saw fit to bless me with."
Then the maidservants came up with their children and bowed; then Leah and her children, also bowing; and finally, Joseph and Rachel came up and bowed to Esau.
Esau said, "Oh, brother. I have plenty of everything—keep what is yours for yourself."
Then Esau said, "Let's start out on our way; I'll take the lead."
But Jacob said, "My master can see that the children are frail. And the flocks and herds are nursing, making for slow going. If I push them too hard, even for a day, I'd lose them all. So, master, you go on ahead of your servant, while I take it easy at the pace of my flocks and children. I'll catch up with you in Seir."
Esau said, "Let me at least lend you some of my men." "There's no need," said Jacob. "Your generous welcome is all I need or want."
So Esau set out that day and made his way back to Seir.
To Fight God's Battles Samuel died. The whole country came to his funeral. Everyone grieved over his death, and he was buried in his hometown of Ramah. Meanwhile, David moved again, this time to the wilderness of Maon. There was a certain man in Maon who carried on his business in the region of Carmel. He was very prosperous—three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, and it was sheep-shearing time in Carmel. The man's name was Nabal (Fool), a Calebite, and his wife's name was Abigail. The woman was intelligent and good-looking, the man brutish and mean. David, out in the backcountry, heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep and sent ten of his young men off with these instructions: "Go to Carmel and approach Nabal. Greet him in my name, ‘Peace! Life and peace to you. Peace to your household, peace to everyone here! I heard that it's sheep-shearing time. Here's the point: When your shepherds were camped near us we didn't take advantage of them. They didn't lose a thing all the time they were with us in Carmel. Ask your young men—they'll tell you. What I'm asking is that you be generous with my men—share the feast! Give whatever your heart tells you to your servants and to me, David your son.'" David's young men went and delivered his message word for word to Nabal. Nabal tore into them, "Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? The country is full of runaway servants these days. Do you think I'm going to take good bread and wine and meat freshly butchered for my sheepshearers and give it to men I've never laid eyes on? Who knows where they've come from?" David's men got out of there and went back and told David what he had said. David said, "Strap on your swords!" They all strapped on their swords, David and his men, and set out, four hundred of them. Two hundred stayed behind to guard the camp. Meanwhile, one of the young shepherds told Abigail, Nabal's wife, what had happened: "David sent messengers from the backcountry to salute our master, but he tore into them with insults. Yet these men treated us very well. They took nothing from us and didn't take advantage of us all the time we were in the fields. They formed a wall around us, protecting us day and night all the time we were out tending the sheep. Do something quickly because big trouble is ahead for our master and all of us. Nobody can talk to him. He's impossible—a real brute!" Abigail flew into action. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep dressed out and ready for cooking, a bushel of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she had it all loaded on some donkeys. Then she said to her young servants, "Go ahead and pave the way for me. I'm right behind you." But she said nothing to her husband Nabal. As she was riding her donkey, descending into a ravine, David and his men were descending from the other end, so they met there on the road. David had just said, "That sure was a waste, guarding everything this man had out in the wild so that nothing he had was lost—and now he rewards me with insults. A real slap in the face! May God do his worst to me if Nabal and every cur in his misbegotten brood aren't dead meat by morning!" As soon as Abigail saw David, she got off her donkey and fell on her knees at his feet, her face to the ground in homage, saying, "My master, let me take the blame! Let me speak to you. Listen to what I have to say. Don't dwell on what that brute Nabal did. He acts out the meaning of his name: Nabal, Fool. Foolishness oozes from him. "I wasn't there when the young men my master sent arrived. I didn't see them. And now, my master, as God lives and as you live, God has kept you from this avenging murder—and may your enemies, all who seek my master's harm, end up like Nabal! Now take this gift that I, your servant girl, have brought to my master, and give it to the young men who follow in the steps of my master.
On returning to Ziklag, David sent portions of the plunder to the elders of Judah, his neighbors, with a note saying, "A gift from the plunder of God 's enemies!" He sent them to the elders in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, Jattir, Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, Racal, Jerahmeelite cities, Kenite cities, Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athach, and Hebron, along with a number of other places David and his men went to from time to time.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever,.... By which are meant, not the doctrines of the Gospel, nor the ordinances of it; though these will stand firm, and remain to the end of the world; but the purposes and decrees of God, which are wisely formed in himself, are eternal and unfrustrable, and relate to all things in providence and grace. The Lord does all things according to the counsel of his will in the government of the world, and in the salvation of men: the choice of persons to everlasting life is according to it; and so are their redemption, effectual calling, and glorification;
the thoughts of his heart to all generations; which, with respect to his own people, are thoughts of peace, grace, and mercy; these are many, and within himself, were very early, even from all eternity, and have their sure and certain effect, Isaiah 14:24; see Proverbs 19:21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The counsel of the Lord - The purpose of the Lord.
Standeth for ever - It will be carried out. It will never be changed. There can be no “superior” counsel or will to change it, as is the case with the plans of men; and no purposes of any beings “inferior” to himself - angels, men, or devils - can affect, defeat, or modify his eternal plans. No changes in human affairs can impede his plans; no opposition can defeat them; no progress can supersede them.
The thoughts of his heart - The things which he has “designed,” or which he intends shall be accomplished.
To all generations - Margin, as in Hebrew, “to generation and generation.” That is, from one generation of men to another; or, to all time. The plans of God are not changed by the passing off of one generation and the coming on of another; by new dynasties of kings, or by the revolutions that may occur in states and empires. Men can seldom cause their plans to be carried forward beyond the generation in which they live; and they can have no security that coming generations, with their own plans, will not abolish or change all that has been devised or purposed before. No man can make it certain that his own will, even in regard to “property,” will be carried out in the generation that succeeds him. No monarch can make it certain that his plans will be perfected by his successors. Schemes devised with the profoundest care and the highest wisdom may be set aside by those who are next in power; and no individual can hope that coming ages will feel sufficient interest in him or his memory to carry on his plans. Who feels now any obligation to carry out the projects of Caesar or Alexander? How long since have all their plans passed away! So it will be with all who are now playing their parts on the earth! But none of these things affect the purposes of Him who will continue to live and to carry out His own designs when all the generations of human beings shall have passed away.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 33:11. The counsel of the Lord — What he has determined shall be done. He determined to make a world, and he made it; to create man, and he created him. He determined that at a certain period God should be manifested in the flesh, and it was so; that he should taste death for every man, and he did so; that his Gospel should be preached in all the world; and behold it has already nearly overrun the whole earth. All his other counsels and thoughts, which refer to the future, shall be accomplished in their times.
