KJV:
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.
NASB:
Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed.
KJV:
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
NASB:
Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.
KJV:
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
NASB:
"Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us."
KJV:
For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
NASB:
"For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"
KJV:
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
NASB:
The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.
KJV:
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
NASB:
The earth is broken asunder, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.
KJV:
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
NASB:
The highways are desolate, the traveler has ceased, He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, He has no regard for man.
KJV:
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
NASB:
Causing the omens of boasters to fail, Making fools out of diviners, Causing wise men to draw back And turning their knowledge into foolishness,
KJV:
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
NASB:
"They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers."