Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11 For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, 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 frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Psalm 46:7

Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Deuteronomy 20:1

When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Joshua 1:5

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

2 Samuel 15:31

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

2 Samuel 17:4

And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

2 Samuel 17:23

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

2 Chronicles 13:12

And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

2 Chronicles 33:7-8

And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

Psalm 2:1-2

Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing?

Psalm 33:10-11

Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

Psalm 46:11

Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Psalm 83:3-18

Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Jehovah.

Isaiah 7:5-7

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying,

Isaiah 8:8

and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 41:10

Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Nahum 1:9-12

What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.

Matthew 1:23

Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.

Matthew 28:20

teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

Acts 5:38-39

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown:

Romans 8:13

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

1 John 4:4

Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

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