¹¹ The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

²⁷ For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

⁸ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

²⁸ Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.

¹⁷ The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

²² Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,