“Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,

for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans.

to make artistic designs for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze,

to design artistic designs, to work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,

“Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

The plans of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Plans are established by counsel, so make war with guidance.

You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

ש (Sin/Shin) You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.

They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

The Lord’s decisions stand forever; his plans abide throughout the ages.

How great are your works, O Lord! Your plans are very intricate!

The Lord knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established.

The Lord abhors the plans of the wicked, but pleasant words are pure.

There are many plans in a person’s mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.