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

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

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.

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.

The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

“Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?

But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

O Lord God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, maintain the motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.

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

The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia a wasteland where no one lives.

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

“And you, Solomon my son, obey the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, for the Lord examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.

Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying, “Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”

Then some people said, “Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”