Amsal 12:2

12:2 A good person obtains favor from the Lord,

but the Lord ¹  condemns a person with wicked schemes. ² 

Kejadian 37:19-20

37:19 They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams! ³  37:20 Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild ⁴  animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!” ⁵ 

Ester 9:25

9:25 But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king ⁶  gave written orders that Haman’s ⁷  evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.

Mazmur 21:11

21:11 Yes, ⁸  they intend to do you harm; ⁹ 

they dream up a scheme, ¹⁰  but they do not succeed. ¹¹ 

Mazmur 33:10-11

33:10 The Lord frustrates ¹²  the decisions of the nations;

he nullifies the plans ¹³  of the peoples.

33:11 The Lord’s decisions stand forever;

his plans abide throughout the ages. ¹⁴ 

Mazmur 83:4

83:4 They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! ¹⁵ 

Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”

Pengkhotbah 7:29

7:29 This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright,

but they have sought many evil schemes.

Yesaya 7:6-7

7:6 They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. ¹⁶  Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.” ¹⁷  7:7 For this reason the sovereign master, ¹⁸  the Lord, says:

“It will not take place;

it will not happen.

Daniel 11:24-25

11:24 In a time of prosperity for the most productive areas of the province he will come and accomplish what neither his fathers nor their fathers accomplished. He will distribute loot, spoils, and property to his followers, and he will devise plans against fortified cities, but not for long. ¹⁹  11:25 He will rouse his strength and enthusiasm ²⁰  against the king of the south ²¹  with a large army. The king of the south will wage war with a large and very powerful army, but he will not be able to prevail because of the plans devised against him.

Matius 26:4-5

26:4 They ²²  planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 26:5 But they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.” ²³ 

Matius 27:63-64

27:63 and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ²⁴  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

[12:2]  ¹ tn Heb “but he condemns”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:2]  ² tn Heb “a man of wicked plans.” The noun מְזִמּוֹת (mÿzimmot, “evil plans”) functions as an attributive genitive: “an evil-scheming man.” Cf. NASB “a man who devises evil”; NAB “the schemer.”

[37:19]  ³ tn Heb “Look, this master of dreams is coming.” The brothers’ words have a sarcastic note and indicate that they resent his dreams.

[37:20]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew word can sometimes carry the nuance “evil,” but when used of an animal it refers to a dangerous wild animal.

[37:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “what his dreams will be.”

[9:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Haman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:11]  ⁸ tn Or “for.”

[21:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “they extend against you harm.” The perfect verbal forms in v. 11 are taken as generalizing, stating factually what the king’s enemies typically do. Another option is to translate with the past tense (“they intended…planned”).

[21:11]  ¹⁰ sn See Ps 10:2.

[21:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they lack ability.”

[33:10]  ¹² tn Heb “breaks” or “destroys.” The Hebrew perfect verbal forms here and in the next line generalize about the Lord’s activity.

[33:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “thoughts.”

[33:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the thoughts of his heart for generation to generation.” The verb “abides” is supplied in the translation. The Lord’s “decisions” and “plans” here refer to his decrees and purposes.

[83:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “we will cause them to disappear from [being] a nation.”

[7:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and let us break it open for ourselves”; NASB “make for ourselves a breach in its walls”; NLT “fight our way into.”

[7:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and we will make the son of Tabeel king in its midst.”

[7:6]  sn The precise identity of this would-be puppet king is unknown. He may have been a Syrian official or the ruler of one of the small neighboring states. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 370.

[7:7]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 14, 19 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[11:24]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and unto a time.”

[11:25]  ²⁰ tn Heb “heart.”

[11:25]  ²¹ sn This king of the south was Ptolemy Philometer (ca. 181-145 B.C.).

[26:4]  ²² tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[26:5]  ²³ sn The suggestion here is that Jesus was too popular to openly arrest him.

[27:64]  ²⁴ tn Grk “him.”