Isaiah 46:10

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Summary

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

The end

My counsel

General references

Bible References

The end

Let them advance them, and tell us, What shall happen, - Things known in advance - what they were, tell ye, That we may lay them to our heart and mark the after-story of them, Or, things yet to come, let us hear:

Who then, like me, can call, and declare it, and order it, for me, Seeing that I appointed an age-abiding people, - Or things yet to be, and that shall come to pass, Let them declare on their part.

Tell ye - and bring near, Yea let them take counsel, together, - Who let this be known aforetime. In time past, declared it? Was it not, I - Yahweh? And there is none else that is God besides me, A GOD, righteous and ready to save, There is none, besides me!

And enmity, will I put between thee, and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, - He shall crush thy head, but, thou, shalt crush his heel.

That I may make thee into a great nation, And bless thee and make great thy name, And become thou a blessing;

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the commanders staff a from between his feet, - Until that he come in as a Shiloh, And, his, be the obedience of the peoples:

I see One, who is not now, I observe One, who is not nigh, - There hath marched forth a Star out of Jacob. And arisen a Sceptre out of Israel, That hath dishonoured the beard of Mesh, Yea the crown of the head of all the tumultuous;

seeing that as for Yahweh thy God, a consuming fire, he is, - a jealous GOD.

But it shall be, if thou do not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, then shall come in upon thee all these curses and shall reach thee: -

Known from age-past times.

My counsel

Calling, From the East, a Bird of Prey, From a far country, the Man I intended, - Yea I have spoken I will also bring it to pass, I have planned, I will also do it.

Even from To-day, I, am He, And none, out of my hand, can deliver, - I work and who reverseth?

The counsel of Yahweh, to times age-abiding, shall stand, The devices of his heart, from generation to generation.

Whatsoever Yahweh hath pleased, he hath done, - in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas, and all resounding deeps:

Many are the devices in a man's heart, but, the counsel of Yahweh, that, shall stand.

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel, to confront Yahweh.

And, all the inhabitants of the earth, as nothing, are accounted, and, according to his own pleasure, dealeth he - with the army of the heavens, and the inhabitants of the earth, - and none there is who can smite upon his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done?

And it shall be - every soul, whatsoever, which shall not hearken unto that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

For they were gathered together, of a truth, in this city, against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, - both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with them of the nations, and peoples of Israel; -

But, if it is, of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them: lest once, even fighters against God, ye be found.

Oh! the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments! and untraceable his ways!

making known to us the sacred secret of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him, -

Wherein God, being, more abundantly disposed to shew forth unto the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his counsel, mediated, with an oath, -

General references

A man's heart, deviseth his way, but, Yahweh, directeth his steps.

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel, to confront Yahweh.

Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, - It shall not stand Neither shall it come to pass!

Lo! I have foretold you.

Known from age-past times.

According to a plan of the ages which he made in the anointed Jesus our Lord, -