American Standard Version of 1901
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Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought;He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
The counsel of Jehovah standeth fast for ever,The thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah,The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Jehovah looketh from heaven;He beholdeth all the sons of men;
From the place of his habitation he looketh forthUpon all the inhabitants of the earth,
He that fashioneth the hearts of them all,That considereth all their works.
There are many devices in a man's heart;But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
He hath remembered his covenant for ever,The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
The covenant which he made with Abraham,And his oath unto Isaac,
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession {Or, above}from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
But Jehovah hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
And I prayed unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, that thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm.
For Jehovah's portion is his people;Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.