Psalms 33:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

The counsell of the Lord shall stand for euer, and the thoughts of his heart throughout all ages.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֲצַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה לְעוֹלָ֣ם תַּעֲמֹ֑ד מַחְשְׁב֥וֹת לִ֝בּ֗וֹ לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר׃

Transliteration

ʿĂṣat YHWH for-ʿôlām taʿămōd maḥšəbôt libbô for-dōr and-dōr

Grammar Details

• *ʿĂṣat*: feminine singular construct noun - counsel of/plan of
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *lə-ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun with preposition *lə-* (for) - forever
• *taʿămōd*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - stands/will stand
• *maḥšəbôt*: feminine plural construct noun - thoughts/plans of
• *libbô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his heart
• *lə-dōr*: masculine singular noun with preposition *lə-* (for) - generation
• *wā-dōr*: masculine singular noun with conjunction *wə-* (and) - and generation

Word Meanings

• *ʿĂṣat*: counsel of/plan of/advice of
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/long duration
• *taʿămōd*: stands/will stand/endures
• *maḥšəbôt*: thoughts/plans/devices/intentions
• *libbô*: his heart/his mind/his will
• *dōr wā-dōr*: generation and generation/generation to generation/throughout all generations

Referenced Verses

• Prov 19:21 : 21 Many deuises are in a mans heart: but the counsell of the Lord shall stand.
• Job 23:13 : 13 Yet he is in one minde, & who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.
• Isa 46:10 : 10 Which declare the last thing from the beginning: and from of olde, the things that were not done, saying, My counsell shall stand, and I will doe whatsoeuer I will.
• Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth the Lord. 9 For as ye heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your wayes, and my thoughtes aboue your thoughts.
• Jer 29:11 : 11 For I knowe the thoughtes, that I haue thought towards you, saith the Lorde, euen the thoughtes of peace, and not of trouble, to giue you an ende, and your hope.
• Lam 3:37 : 37 Who is he then that sayth, & it commeth to passe, and the Lord commandeth it not?
• Acts 4:27-28 : 27 For doutlesse, against thine holy Sonne Iesus, whome thou haddest anoynted, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel gathered themselues together, 28 To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done.
• Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom also we are chosen when we were predestinate according to ye purpose of him, which worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will,
• Isa 14:27 : 27 Because the Lorde of hostes hath determined it, and who shall disanull it? and his hande is stretched out, and who shall turne it away?
• Ps 92:5 : 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy workes! and thy thoughtes are very deepe.
• Isa 14:24 : 24 The Lorde of hostes hath sworne, saying, Surely like as I haue purposed, so shall it come to passe, and as I haue consulted, it shall stand:
• Acts 15:18 : 18 From the beginning of the worlde, God knoweth all his workes.
• Dan 4:37 : 37 (4:34) Now therefore I Nebuchad-nezzar prayse and extoll & magnifie the King of heauen, whose workes are all trueth, & his wayes iudgement, and those that walke in pride, he is able to abase.
• Mic 4:12 : 12 But they knowe not the thoughtes of the Lord: they vnderstand not his counsell, for he shall gather them as the sheaues in the barne.
• Ezek 38:10-23 : 10 Thus saith the Lorde God, Euen at ye same time shall many things come into thy minde, and thou shalt thinke euil thoughts. 11 And thou shalt say, I wil go vp to the land that hath no walled towres: I will goe to them that are at rest, and dwell in safetie, which dwell all without walles, and haue neither barres nor gates, 12 Thinking to spoyle the pray, and to take a bootie, to turne thine hande vpon the desolate places that are nowe inhabited, and vpon the people, that are gathered out of the nations which haue gotten cattell and goods, and dwell in the middes of the land. 13 Sheba and Dedan, and the marchantes of Tarshish with all the lions thereof shall say vnto thee, Art thou come to spoyle the praye? Hast thou gathered thy multitude to take a booty? To cary away siluer and golde, to take away cattell and goods, and to spoyle a great pray? 14 Therefore, sonne of man, prophecie, and saye vnto Gog, Thus sayeth the Lorde God, In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safe, shalt thou not knowe it? 15 And come fro thy place out of the North partes, thou and much people with thee? All shall ride vpon horses, euen a great multitude and a mightie armie. 16 And thou shalt come vp against my people of Israel, as a cloude to couer the land: thou shalt be in the latter dayes, and I will bring thee vpon my lande, that the heathen may knowe mee, when I shalbe sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 17 Thus saith the Lord God, Art not thou he, of whom I haue spoken in olde time, by ye hand of my seruants the Prophets of Israel which prophecied in those dayes and yeeres, that I woulde bring thee vpon them? 18 At the same time also whe Gog shal come against the land of Israel, sayth the Lord God, my wrath shall arise in mine anger. 19 For in mine indignation and in the fire of my wrath haue I spoken it: surely at that time there shalbe a great shaking in the land of Israel, 20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the foules of the heauen, & the beasts of the field & al that moue & creepe vpo the earth, and al ye men that are vpo the earth, shal tremble at my presence, & the mountaines shalbe ouerthrowen, and the staires shall fall, and euery wall shall fall to the ground. 21 For I will call for a sworde against him throughout all my mountaines, saith the Lorde God: euery mans sword shalbe against his brother. 22 And I will pleade against him with pestilence, and with blood, and I will cause to raine vpon him and vpon his bands, and vpon the great people, that are with him, a sore raine, and hailestones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus will I be magnified, and sanctified, and knowen in the eyes of many nations, & they shall knowe, that I am the Lord.