'Counsels' in the Bible

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

And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.

Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because 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?

And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain 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 justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.

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

Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?

O Jehovah, my God art Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One.

Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, Stand up, I pray thee, and save thee, Let the charmers of the heavens, Those looking on the stars, Those teaching concerning the months, From those things that come on thee!

And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward.

Grievous hath been the sword in his cities, And it hath ended his bars, and consumed -- from their own counsels.

And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against me;

so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.