For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, 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.” |
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. | Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established. |
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Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. | Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed. |
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. | A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps. |
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. | There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail. |
May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! | May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel. |
O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. | Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. |
For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. | Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets. |
The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. | Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down. |
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. | Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands. |
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. | If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. |