Proverbs 21:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

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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 shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.

Ezra 1:1

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:

Ezra 1:2

“Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 6:22

With joy they celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 1:11

O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man!” At the time, I was cupbearer to the king.

Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 2:8

and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, directing him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the temple fortress and for the wall of the city and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me.

Esther 2:17

the king loved Esther more than all the other women; of all the virgins she won his favor and devotion, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Psalm 105:25

whose hearts he then turned to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.

Psalm 106:46

He caused them to be pitied by all who held them captive.

Psalm 114:3

The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.

Psalm 114:5

Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

Psalm 74:15

You cut openings for springs and torrents; you dried up ever-flowing streams.

Psalm 93:4

More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters, more majestic than the waves of the sea, majestic on high is the Lord!

Exodus 7:3

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Proverbs 16:9

The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.

Proverbs 20:24

All our steps are ordered by the Lord; how then can we understand our own ways?

Isaiah 43:19

I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 44:27

who says to the deep, “Be dry— I will dry up your rivers”;

Jeremiah 39:12

“Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm, but deal with him as he may ask you.”

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Acts 7:10

and rescued him from all his afflictions and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

Revelation 16:12

The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great River Euphrates, and its water was dried up in order to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Revelation 16:4

The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.