'Plans' in the Bible
For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.
In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its plans. So he was seven years in building it.
“My days are past, my plans are torn apart,Even the wishes of my heart.
“Behold, I know your thoughts,And the plans by which you would wrong me.
The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever,The plans of His heart from generation to generation.
He plans wickedness upon his bed;He sets himself on a path that is not good;He does not despise evil.
They make shrewd plans against Your people,And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
A heart that devises wicked plans,Feet that run rapidly to evil,
Without consultation, plans are frustrated,But with many counselors they succeed.
Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord,But pleasant words are pure.
The plans of the heart belong to man,But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Commit your works to the LordAnd your plans will be established.
The mind of man plans his way,But the Lord directs his steps.
Many plans are in a man’s heart,But the counsel of the Lord will stand.
Prepare plans by consultation,And make war by wise guidance.
The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage,But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty.
O Lord, You are my God;I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;For You have worked wonders,Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from the Lord,And whose deeds are done in a dark place,And they say, “Who sees us?” or “Who knows us?”
But the noble man devises noble plans;And by noble plans he stands.
“Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing disaster on this people,The fruit of their plans,Because they have not listened to My words,And as for My law, they have rejected it also.
But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”
For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.