Psalms 33:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none 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 imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
• Isa 8:9-9 : 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come 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 thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
• Isa 19:11-14 : 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise 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 are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
• Isa 44:23 : 23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
• Isa 44:25 : 25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
• Ps 140:8 : 8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
• Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
• Isa 7:5-7 : 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: 7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, 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 LORD, 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 the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
• Ps 2:1-4 : 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
• Ps 9:15 : 15 The heathen 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 on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so 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 treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
• Job 5:12-13 : 12 He disappointeth 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 froward 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 to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and 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 hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.