זָמַם

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

…you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.

You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.

The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,

…“so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.