Proverbs 21:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

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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.

Proverbs 21:1 Cross References

2 Kings 19:33

In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet came and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.

Ezra 1:1

And all they that were round about, helped their hands with vessels of silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with furniture, besides what they had offered on their own accord.

Ezra 1:2

And king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the temple of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusalem, and had put them in the temple of his god.

Ezra 6:22

The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest from the beginning.

Nehemiah 1:11

And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into Judea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.

Nehemiah 2:4

And I came to the governors of the country beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. And the king had sent wish me captains of soldiers, and horsemen.

Nehemiah 2:8

3 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.

Esther 2:17

2 And Mardochai had notice of it, and immediately he told it to queen Esther: and she to the king in Mardochai's name, who had reported the thing unto her.

Psalm 105:25

2 He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.

Psalm 106:46

They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.

Psalm 114:3

For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the gentiles should say: Where is their God?

Psalm 114:5

The idols of the gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.

Psalm 74:15

2 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

Psalm 93:4

They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

Exodus 7:3

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, who have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought forth the children of Israel out of the midst of them.

Proverbs 16:1

Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.

Proverbs 16:9

6 Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.

Proverbs 20:24

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.

Isaiah 43:19

7 Thy brat father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Isaiah 44:27

I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

Jeremiah 39:12

And the general of the army taking Jeremias, said to him: The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place,

Daniel 4:35

Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Acts 7:10

8 Till another king arose in Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

Revelation 16:12

1 And great hail, like a talent, came down from heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God for the plague of the hail: because it was exceeding great.

Revelation 16:4

3 And I saw from the mouth of the dragon, and from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.