'Counsels' in the Bible

For a nation lost to counsels are they, And there is no understanding in them.

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?

I will praise the Lord who counsels me—even at night my conscience instructs me.

Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy counsels.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels];I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

From you [O Nineveh],One has gone forth who plotted evil against the Lord,A malevolent counselor [the king of Assyria].