Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that you should be the one to lay waste fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
I know that, whatever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and his ways justice: and those who walk in pride he is able to bring low.
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will: