Commit your works to the Lord, And your plans will be established. | Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed. |
For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? | For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? |
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‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’ | “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.” |
The mind of a person plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps. | A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps. |
May He grant you your heart’s desire And fulfill your whole plan! | May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel. |
Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed. | Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established. |
Many plans are in a person’s heart, But the advice of the Lord will stand. | There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail. |
Let me hear Your faithfulness in the morning, For I trust in You; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to You I lift up my soul. | Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you. |
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven. | For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. |
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. | “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh. |
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth; Stop dwelling on it. | Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. |
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom. | So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. |
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts. | For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. |
This also comes from the Lord of armies, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great. | This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom. |
For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. | But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. |
Do not envy a violent person, And do not choose any of his ways. For the devious are an abomination to the Lord; But He is intimate with the upright. | Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright. |
Certainly the Lord God does nothing Unless He reveals His secret plan To His servants the prophets. | Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets. |