Psalms 33:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְֽהוָ֗ה הֵפִ֥יר עֲצַת־גּוֹיִ֑ם הֵ֝נִ֗יא מַחְשְׁב֥וֹת עַמִּֽים׃

Transliteration

YHWH hēfîr ʿăṣat-gôyim hēnî' maḥšəbôt ʿammîm

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: divine name
• *hēfîr*: hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - frustrated/brought to nothing
• *ʿăṣat*: feminine singular construct noun - counsel of/plan of
• *gôyim*: masculine plural noun - nations
• *hēnî'*: hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - thwarted/frustrated
• *maḥšəbôt*: feminine plural construct noun - thoughts/plans
• *ʿammîm*: masculine plural noun - peoples

Word Meanings

• *hēfîr*: frustrated/brought to nothing/annulled/foiled
• *ʿăṣat*: counsel of/plan of/advice of
• *gôyim*: nations/gentiles/peoples
• *hēnî'*: thwarted/frustrated/prevented
• *maḥšəbôt*: thoughts/plans/devices/intentions
• *ʿammîm*: peoples/nations/tribes

Referenced Verses

• Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
• Isa 8:9-9 : 9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Isa 19:3 : 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
• Isa 19:11-14 : 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes. 14 Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
• Isa 44:23 : 23 Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah hath done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
• Isa 44:25 : 25 that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
• Ps 140:8 : 8 Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked; Further not his evil device, [lest] they exalt themselves. {H5542}
• Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Jehovah.
• Isa 7:5-7 : 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel; 7 thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
• 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
• 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.
• Ps 2:1-4 : 1 Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying], 3 Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.
• Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
• Exod 1:10-12 : 10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
• Job 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
• 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
• 2 Sam 15:34 : 34 but if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant in time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.