Psalms 33:11

World English Bible (2000)

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

📖 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 There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.
• Job 23:13 : 13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
• Isa 46:10 : 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
• Isa 55:8-9 : 8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
• Jer 29:11 : 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
• Lam 3:37 : 37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
• Acts 4:27-28 : 27 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
• Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
• Isa 14:27 : 27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
• Ps 92:5 : 5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
• Isa 14:24 : 24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Acts 15:18 : 18 All his works are known to God from eternity.'
• Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Mic 4:12 : 12 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
• Ezek 38:10-23 : 10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device: 11 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates; 12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth. 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil? 14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it? 15 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army; 16 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes. 17 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them? 18 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils. 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother. 22 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. 23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.