An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.

Syria has plotted with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah to bring about your demise.

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?

Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?

But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the Lord who commands armies has planned for Egypt.

A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.