²⁰ And Absalom saith unto Ahithophel, `Give for you counsel what we do.'

¹⁰ give help! let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it hath come to pass, when war happeneth, that it hath been joined, even it, unto those hating us, and hath fought against us, and hath gone out up of the land.'

² Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

¹² The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

¹³ The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.

¹⁰ Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

¹⁵ Wo `to' those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'

¹ And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;

²³ And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,

²⁴ and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, `Lord, thou `art' God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that `are' in them,

²⁵ who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

²⁶ the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

²⁷ for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

²⁸ to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.