²¹ Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.^(A)

“‘It will not take place,
    it will not happen,^(B)

⁹ The head of Ephraim is Samaria,^(A)
    and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand^(B) firm in your faith,^(C)
    you will not stand at all.’”^(D)

²⁶ who carries out the words^(A) of his servants
    and fulfills^(B) the predictions of his messengers,

who says of Jerusalem,^(C) ‘It shall be inhabited,’
    of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt,’
    and of their ruins,^(D) ‘I will restore them,’^(E)