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and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.

You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.

Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

When I look, there is no man, even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

Flee! Wander far off! Dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor,” says Yahweh; “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?

My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.