He frustrates ¹  the plans ²  of the crafty ³  so that ⁴  their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned! ⁵ 

Since many ¹  are boasting according to human standards, ²  I too will boast.

For human ¹  anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. ² 

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight ¹  was true!

The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, including his successes and military exploits, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹ 

The rest of the events of Jehu’s reign, including all his accomplishments and successes, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹ 

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight ¹  was true!

For our momentary, light suffering ¹  is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

Now David achieved success in all he did, ¹  for the Lord was with him.

But their prosperity is not their own doing. ¹  The counsel of the wicked is far from me! ² 

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, ¹  and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’ ² 

They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly. ¹  The Lord’s right hand conquers, ² 

the Lord’s right hand gives victory, ¹  the Lord’s right hand conquers.

lest you give your vigor ¹  to others and your years to a cruel person,

The one who has a perverse heart ¹  does not find good, ²  and the one who is deceitful in speech ³  falls into trouble.

Everything ¹  I have belongs to you, ²  and everything you have belongs to me, ³  and I have been glorified by them. ⁴ 

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

Now all the actions carried out under his authority and his great achievements, along with an exact statement concerning the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king promoted, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished ¹  and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, ²  I concluded: ³  “All these ⁴  achievements and possessions ⁵  are ultimately ⁶  profitless ⁷  – like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained ⁸  from them ⁹  on earth.”

After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, ¹