Psalms 33:11 Cross References - BBE

¹¹ The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.

¹³ But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.

⁵ O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

²¹ A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

²⁴ The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:

²⁷ For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

¹⁰ Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord. ⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹¹ For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

³⁷ Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

¹⁰ This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design: ¹¹ And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors: ¹² To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth. ¹³ Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth? ¹⁴ For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them? ¹⁵ And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army: ¹⁶ And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes. ¹⁷ This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them. ¹⁸ And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling. ¹⁹ For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel; ²⁰ So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth. ²¹ And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother. ²² And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning. ²³ And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

¹² But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.

²⁷ For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together, ²⁸ To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

¹⁸ Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;