Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For God is with us.”

King James Version

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Holman Bible

Devise a plan; it will fail.
Make a prediction; it will not happen.
For God is with us.

International Standard Version

Take counsel together, but it will all be for nothing; go ahead and talk, but it will all be for nothing, for God is with us."

A Conservative Version

Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.

American Standard Version

Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Amplified


“Take counsel together [against Judah], but it will come to nothing;
Speak the word, but it will not stand,
For God is with us (Immanuel).”

Bible in Basic English

Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

Darby Translation

Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Julia Smith Translation

Counsel ye, counsel, and it shall be dispersed; speak the word and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

King James 2000

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{Make a plan}, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us!

Modern King James verseion

Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated. Speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Take your counsel together, yet must your counsel come to nought; go in hand withal, yet shall it not prosper. For God is with us.

NET Bible

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

New Heart English Bible

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

The Emphasized Bible

Determine a plan, - and it shall be frustrated, - Speak a word, and it shall not stand, For With-us-is-GOD!

Webster

Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

World English Bible

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

Youngs Literal Translation

Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עוּץ 
`uwts 
Usage: 2

עוּץ 
`uwts 
Usage: 2

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

the word
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

and it shall not stand
קוּם 
Quwm 
Usage: 629

אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

References

Context Readings

Shiloah Waters And Euphrates Flood

9 Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;
And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.
10 Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For God is with us.”
11 For thus the Lord spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,


Cross References

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Job 5:12

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.

Psalm 46:7

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.

Deuteronomy 20:1

“When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you.

Joshua 1:5

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.

2 Samuel 15:31

Now someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolishness.”

2 Samuel 17:4

So the plan pleased Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

2 Samuel 17:23

Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

2 Chronicles 13:12

Now behold, God is with us at our head and His priests with the signal trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

2 Chronicles 33:7-8

Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

Psalm 2:1-2

Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?

Psalm 33:10-11

The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 46:1

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah, set to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.

Psalm 46:11

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

Psalm 83:3-18

They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.

Isaiah 7:5-7

Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,

Isaiah 8:8

“Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through,
It will reach even to the neck;
And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 41:10

‘Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

Lamentations 3:37

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?

Nahum 1:9-12

Whatever you devise against the Lord,
He will make a complete end of it.
Distress will not rise up twice.

Matthew 1:23

Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”

Matthew 28:20

teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Acts 5:38-39

So in the present case, I say to you, stay away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will be overthrown;

Romans 8:13

for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

1 John 4:4

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

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