May I never enter their council;
may I never join their assembly.
For in their anger they kill men,
and on a whim they hamstring oxen.

But if her husband prohibits her when he hears about it, he will cancel her vow that is binding or the rash commitment she herself made, and the Lord will forgive her.

Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn obligation to deny herself.

“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the Lord’s release of debts has been proclaimed.

Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions, but did not seek the Lord’s counsel.

Then the king answered the woman, “I’m going to ask you something; don’t conceal it from me!”

“Let my lord the king speak,” the woman replied.

Then someone reported to David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”

“Lord,” David pleaded, “please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

but if you return to the city and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, my king! Previously, I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant,’ then you can counteract Ahithophel’s counsel for me.

She said, “In the past they used to say, ‘Seek counsel in Abel,’ and that’s how they settled disputes.

The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

King Amaziah of Judah took counsel and sent word to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us meet face to face.”

Let us therefore make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt.

Wisdom and strength belong to God;
counsel and understanding are His.

If only You would hide me in Sheol
and conceal me until Your anger passes.
If only You would appoint a time for me
and then remember me.

Does a wise man answer with empty counsel
or fill himself with the hot east wind?

Do you listen in on the council of God,
or have a monopoly on wisdom?

But their prosperity is not of their own doing.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

But it was He who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

I will teach you about God’s power.
I will not conceal what the Almighty has planned.

Who is this who obscures My counsel
with ignorant words?

You asked, “Who is this who conceals My counsel with ignorance?”
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.

The secret counsel of the Lord
is for those who fear Him,
and He reveals His covenant to them.

For He will conceal me in His shelter
in the day of adversity;
He will hide me under the cover of His tent;
He will set me high on a rock.

You hide them in the protection of Your presence;
You conceal them in a shelter
from the schemes of men,
from quarrelsome tongues.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not conceal my iniquity.
I said,
“I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and You took away the guilt of my sin.Selah

I will instruct you and show you the way to go;
with My eye on you, I will give counsel.

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

The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the plans of His heart from generation to generation.

I did not hide Your righteousness in my heart;
I spoke about Your faithfulness and salvation;
I did not conceal Your constant love and truth
from the great assembly.

You guide me with Your counsel,
and afterward You will take me up in glory.

God is greatly feared in the council of the holy ones,
more awe-inspiring than all who surround Him.

They soon forgot His works
and would not wait for His counsel.

because they rebelled against God’s commands
and despised the counsel of the Most High.

Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people
and praise Him in the council of the elders.

since you neglected all my counsel
and did not accept my correction,

were not interested in my counsel,
and rejected all my correction,

A fool’s way is right in his own eyes,
but whoever listens to counsel is wise.

Plans fail when there is no counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction
so that you may be wise later in life.

Counsel in a man’s heart is deep water;
but a man of understanding draws it out.

Finalize plans with counsel,
and wage war with sound guidance.

No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel
will prevail against the Lord.

Haven’t I written for you thirty sayings
about counsel and knowledge,

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter
and the glory of kings to investigate a matter.

Oil and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.

The look on their faces testifies against them,
and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin.
They do not conceal it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him—
a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and strength,
a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

Give us counsel and make a decision.
Shelter us at noonday
with shade that is as dark as night.
Hide the refugees;
do not betray the one who flees.

For look, the Lord is coming from His place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth will reveal the blood shed on it
and will no longer conceal her slain.

Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,
or who gave Him His counsel?

who confirms the message of His servant
and fulfills the counsel of His messengers;
who says to Jerusalem, “She will be inhabited,”
and to the cities of Judah, “They will be rebuilt,”
and I will restore her ruins;

Speak up and present your case—
yes, let them take counsel together.
Who predicted this long ago?
Who announced it from ancient times?
Was it not I, Yahweh?
There is no other God but Me,
a righteous God and Savior;
there is no one except Me.

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”

For who has stood in the council of the Lord
to see and hear His word?
Who has paid attention to His word and obeyed?

If they had really stood in My council,
they would have enabled My people to hear My words
and would have turned them back from their evil ways
and their evil deeds.

the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men in order to give to each person according to his ways and the result of his deeds.

About Edom, this is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away?

Disaster after disaster will come,
and there will be rumor after rumor.
Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,
but instruction will perish from the priests
and counsel from the elders.

The calf itself will be taken to Assyria
as an offering to the great king.
Ephraim will experience shame;
Israel will be ashamed of its counsel.

Indeed, the Lord God does nothing
without revealing His counsel
to His servants the prophets.

If they hide themselves
on the top of Carmel,
from there I will track them down
and seize them;
if they conceal themselves
from My sight on the sea floor,
from there I will command
the sea serpent to bite them.

Yes, He will build the Lord’s temple; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. There will also be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two of them.

as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. After I received letters from them to the brothers, I traveled to Damascus to bring those who were prisoners there to be punished in Jerusalem.

After Festus conferred with his council, he replied, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go!”

What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?

Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

And I say this: The law, which came 430 years later, does not revoke a covenant that was previously ratified by God and cancel the promise.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you; it was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.