11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. …
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)To make the people quiet and easy in their captivity, I. God takes them off from building upon the false foundation which their pretended prophets laid, Jer. 29:8 , 9 . They told them that their captivity should be short, and therefore that they must not think of taking root in Babylon, but be upon the wing to go back: “Now herein they deceive you ,” says God; “they prophesy a lie to you , though…
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