“But he does not intend so, nor does his heart think so, for it is in his heart to destroy, and cut off not a few nations.
“And you, you intended evil against me, but Elohim intended it for good, in order to do it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive.
“For he says, ‘Are not my princes sovereigns?
See the land of the Kasdim – this people did not exist. Ashshur founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up their siege-towers, they demolished her palaces, and made her a ruin.
and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. And they destroyed them.
I have given him the land of Mitsrayim as a reward for his labour, because they worked for Me,’ declares the Master יהוה.
and he shall capture the army, his heart being exalted. And he shall cause tens of thousands to fall, but not prevail.
From you came forth one who plots evil against יהוה, a counsellor of Beliya‛al.
this One, given up by the set purpose and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have impaled and put to death through the hands of lawless men –
“Him Elohim raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was impossible that He could be held in its grip.