The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
The counsel ... standeth for ever - even as the earth at His bidding "stood fast" (Psalms 33:9). Omnipotent as His work of creation proves Him to be, it is easy for Him to "bring to nought the counsel of the pagan" against Israel and Israel's king, and "the devices" of the anti-Christian 'peoples' against the spiritual Israel, the Church (Psalms 33:10). But His own plans for His glory and the good of His people are "forever," and can never be frustrated. What cause, then, hath Israel for fear?
The thoughts ( machshªbowt (H4284)). The same Hebrew stands for, God's "thoughts" here, as stood for the people's "devices," Psalms 33:10, marking, by the irony of contrast between Him and them, the futility of their devices.