⁶ And said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

¹² Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

¹³ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

¹¹ The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.

¹³ Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

³¹ While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?