- Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established. - For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
- For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
- The human mind plans the way,
but the Lord directs the steps. - May he grant you your heart's desire,
and fulfill all your plans. - Without counsel, plans go wrong,
but with many advisers they succeed. - The human mind may devise many plans,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established. - Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul. - For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. - Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
be wise enough to desist. - So teach us to count our days
that we may gain a wise heart. - 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 hosts;
he is wonderful in counsel,
and excellent in wisdom. - These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
- Do not envy the violent
and do not choose any of their ways;
for the perverse are an abomination to the Lord,
but the upright are in his confidence. - Surely the Lord God does nothing,
without revealing his secret
to his servants the prophets.
Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and forgive our sins,
for your name's sake. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.Next verse!With image