⁹ What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

¹⁰ The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

⁵ Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

²⁵ Who has said, by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David your servant, Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

²⁶ The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ:

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.

¹¹ One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

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:

⁹ Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

¹⁰ Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

³⁰ Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

¹¹ For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

¹ Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

² The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

³ Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

⁴ Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

⁸ Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.

¹² In that day I will do to Eli everything which I have said about his family, from first to last.

¹⁰ But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.