Isaiah 23:9

23:9 The Lord who commands armies planned it –

to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, ¹ 

to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

Isaiah 43:13

43:13 From this day forward I am he;

no one can deliver from my power; ² 

I will act, and who can prevent it?”

Isaiah 46:11

46:11 who summons an eagle ³  from the east,

from a distant land, one who carries out my plan.

Yes, I have decreed, ⁴ 

yes, I will bring it to pass;

I have formulated a plan,

yes, I will carry it out.

Job 40:8

40:8 Would you indeed annul ⁵  my justice?

Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Jeremiah 4:28

4:28 Because of this the land will mourn

and the sky above will grow black. ⁶ 

For I have made my purpose known ⁷ 

and I will not relent or turn back from carrying it out.” ⁸ 

Jeremiah 51:59

51:59 This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign. ⁹  (Seraiah was a quartermaster.) ¹⁰ 

Romans 8:28

8:28 And we know that all things work together ¹¹  for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

Romans 8:31

8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

[23:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the pride of all the beauty.”

[43:13]  ² tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “No one can oppose what I do.”

[46:11]  ³ tn Or, more generally, “a bird of prey” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV; see 18:6).

[46:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “spoken”; KJV “I have spoken it.”

[40:8]  ⁵ tn The verb פָּרַר (parar) means “to annul; to break; to frustrate.” It was one thing for Job to claim his own integrity, but it was another matter altogether to nullify God’s righteousness in the process.

[4:28]  ⁶ sn The earth and the heavens are personified here and depicted in the act of mourning and wearing black clothes because of the destruction of the land of Israel.

[4:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “has spoken and purposed.” This is an example of hendiadys where two verbs are joined by “and” but one is meant to serve as a modifier of the other.

[4:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “will not turn back from it.”

[51:59]  ⁹ sn This would be 582 b.c.

[51:59]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “an officer of rest.”

[8:28]  ¹¹ tc ὁ θεός (Jo qeos, “God”) is found after the verb συνεργεῖ (sunergei, “work”) in v. 28 by Ì⁴⁶ A B 81 sa; the shorter reading is found in א C D F G Ψ 33 1739 1881 Ï latt sy bo. Although the inclusion is supported by a significant early papyrus, the alliance of significant Alexandrian and Western witnesses favors the shorter reading. As well, the longer reading is evidently motivated by a need for clarification. Since ὁ θεός is textually suspect, it is better to read the text without it. This leaves two good translational options: either “he works all things together for good” or “all things work together for good.” In the first instance the subject is embedded in the verb and “God” is clearly implied (as in v. 29). In the second instance, πάντα (panta) becomes the subject of an intransitive verb. In either case, “What is expressed is a truly biblical confidence in the sovereignty of God” (C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans [ICC], 1:427).