³ and he taketh counsel with his heads and his mighty ones, to stop the waters of the fountains that `are' at the outside of the city -- and they help him,

²⁰ Thou hast said: Only a word of the lips! counsel and might `are' for battle; now, on whom hast thou trusted that thou hast rebelled against me?

²⁰ And the rest of the matters of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and bringeth in the waters to the city, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

² And the king taketh counsel, and his heads, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to make the passover in the second month,

²² Without counsel `is' the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

¹⁸ Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.

⁶ For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance `is' in a multitude of counsellors.

⁸ And one removeth the covering of Judah, And thou lookest in that day Unto the armour of the house of the forest,

⁹ And the breaches of the city of David ye have seen, For they have become many, And ye gather the waters of the lower pool,

¹⁰ And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.

¹¹ And a ditch ye made between the two walls, For the waters of the old pool, And ye have not looked unto its Maker, And its Framer of old ye have not seen.

¹³ Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, `being' His counsellor, doth teach Him!

³⁴ for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?