Proverbs 21:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ The sovereign’s heart is as channels of water In the hand of יהוה; He turns it wherever He wishes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, As the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THE KING'S heart is in the hand of the Lord, as are the watercourses; He turns it whichever way He wills.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ The king’s heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.

Common English Bible

¹ The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; he directs it wherever he wants.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Just as with the dividing of the waters, so also is the heart of the king in the hand of the Lord. He shall bend it whichever way he wills.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will he shall turn it.

Proverbs 21:1 Cross References

2 Kings 19:33

By the way that he came, by the same he turns back. And he does not come into this city,’ declares יהוה.

Ezra 1:1

And in the first year of Koresh sovereign of Persia, that the word of יהוה by the mouth of Yirmeyah might be accomplished, יהוה stirred up the spirit of Koresh sovereign of Persia, to proclaim throughout all his reign, and also in writing, saying,

Ezra 1:2

“Thus said Koresh sovereign of Persia, ‘יהוה Elohim of the heavens has given me all the reigns of the earth. And He has commanded me to build Him a house in Yerushalayim which is in Yehuḏah.

Ezra 6:22

And they performed the Festival of Matzot seven days with joy, for יהוה caused them to rejoice, and turned the heart of the sovereign of Ashshur toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the House of Elohim, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.

Nehemiah 1:11

“O יהוה, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man.” For I was cupbearer to the sovereign.

Nehemiah 2:4

And the sovereign said to me, “What are you asking for?” Then I prayed to the Elohim of the heavens,

Nehemiah 2:8

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the sovereign’s forest, that he should give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace that belongs to the House, and for the city wall, and for the house I would enter.” And the sovereign gave them to me according to the good hand of my Elohim upon me.

Esther 2:17

And the sovereign loved Estĕr more than all the women, and she found favour and loving-commitment in his eyes more than all the maidens. And he set the royal crown upon her head and made her sovereigness instead of Vashti.

Psalm 105:25

He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.

Psalm 106:46

And He would let them find compassion, Before all those holding them captive.

Psalm 114:3

The sea saw it and fled; The Yardĕn turned back.

Psalm 114:5

Why was it, O sea, that you fled? O Yardĕn, that you turned back?

Psalm 74:15

You did cleave open the fountain and the flood, You did dry up mighty rivers.

Psalm 93:4

יהוה on high is mightier Than the noise of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea.

Exodus 7:3

“But I am going to harden the heart of Pharaoh, and shall increase My signs and My wonders in the land of Mitsrayim.

Proverbs 16:1

To man belongs the preparations of the heart, But from יהוה is the answer of the tongue.

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his way, But יהוה establishes his steps.

Proverbs 20:24

The steps of a man are from יהוה; What does a man know about his own way?

Isaiah 43:19

“See, I am doing what is new, let it now spring forth. Do you not know it? I am even making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 44:27

who is saying to the deep, ‘Be dry, and your rivers I dry up,’

Jeremiah 39:12

“Take him and look after him, and do no harm whatsoever to him, but do to him even as he shall speak to you.”

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are of no account, and He does as He wishes with the host of the heavens and among the inhabitants of the earth. And there is none to strike against His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?”

Acts 7:10

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh, sovereign of Mitsrayim. And he appointed him governor over Mitsrayim and all his house.

Revelation 16:12

And the sixth messenger poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order to prepare the way of the sovereigns from the east.

Revelation 16:4

And the third messenger poured out his bowl on the rivers and fountains of water, and they became blood.