But the plan of the Lord stands forever, the designs of his heart through all generations.
“Have you not heard? A long time ago I prepared it, from days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it about: You are here to reduce fortified cities to heaps of ruins,
But once he decides, who can contradict him? What he desires, that he does.
For you make me jubilant, Lord, by your deeds; at the works of your hands I shout for joy.
Many are the plans of the human heart, but it is the decision of the Lord that endures.
I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus has God done that he may be revered.
The Lord of hosts has sworn: As I have resolved, so shall it be; As I have planned, so shall it stand:
The Lord of hosts has planned; who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out; who can turn it back? Philistia.
At the beginning I declare the outcome; from of old, things not yet done. I say that my plan shall stand, I accomplish my every desire.
For I know well the plans I have in mind for you—oracle of the Lord—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope.
Who speaks so that it comes to pass, unless the Lord commands it?
But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord, nor understand his plan: He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
known from of old.’
In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,