⁵ I say, [your] counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

⁷ Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him.

¹ In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

¹⁹ But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?

²⁰ Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Yahweh.

³¹ The horse is prepared for the day of battle; But victory is with Yahweh.

⁵ A wise man has great power; And a knowledgeable man increases strength;

⁶ For by wise guidance you wage your war; And victory is in many advisors.

³ For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

¹⁵ But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?