For I know full well the plans I have for you, plans for your welfare and not for your misfortune, plans that will offer you a future filled with 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.” |
Plans miscarry when counsel is lacking, but they succeed when there are many counselors. | Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established. |
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Entrust everything that you do to the Lord, and your plans will turn out to be successful. | Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed. |
Many are the plans in a human mind, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will prevail. | There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail. |
May he give you your heart’s desire and grant you success in all your plans. | May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel. |
A man may plan his own course, but the Lord makes his steps secure. | A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps. |
O Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you and praise your name, for you have accomplished wonderful things, formulated in ages past, 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. |
Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing his plan 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 stranger and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he blocks the way of the wicked. | 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 plan for me. Your kindness, 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. |
If I have the gift of prophecy and the ability to understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all the faith necessary to move mountains, but do not have 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. |