Proverbs 21:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD controls rulers, just as he determines the course of rivers.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:33

As surely as I am the LORD, he will return by the way he came and will never enter Jerusalem.

Ezra 1:1

Years ago the LORD sent Jeremiah with a message about a promise for the people of Israel. Then in the first year that Cyrus was king of Persia, the LORD kept his promise by telling Cyrus to send this official message to all parts of his kingdom:

Ezra 1:2

I am King Cyrus of Persia. The LORD God of heaven, who is also the God of Israel, has made me the ruler of all nations on earth. And he has chosen me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. The LORD God will watch over and encourage any of his people who want to go back to Jerusalem and help build the temple.

Ezra 6:22

For seven days they celebrated the Festival of Thin Bread. Everyone was happy because the LORD God of Israel had made sure that the king of Assyria would be kind to them and help them build the temple.

Nehemiah 1:11

Please answer my prayer and the prayer of your other servants who gladly honour your name. When I serve the king his wine today, make him pleased with me and let him do what I ask.

Nehemiah 2:4

The king asked, “What do you want me to do?” I prayed to the God who rules from heaven.

Nehemiah 2:8

I will need timber to rebuild the gates of the fortress near the temple and more timber to construct the city wall and to build a place for me to live. And so, I would appreciate a letter to Asaph, who is in charge of the royal forest.” God was good to me, and the king did everything I asked.

Esther 2:17

Xerxes liked Esther more than he did any of the other young women. None of them pleased him as much as she did, and straight away he fell in love with her and crowned her queen in place of Vashti.

Psalm 105:25

They served the LORD, and he made the Egyptians plan hateful things against them.

Psalm 106:46

that their enemies had pity on them.

Psalm 114:3

When the sea looked at God, it ran away, and the River Jordan flowed upstream.

Psalm 114:5

Ask the sea why it ran away or ask the Jordan why it flowed upstream.

Psalm 74:15

You opened the ground for streams and springs and dried up mighty rivers.

Psalm 93:4

Its mighty waves are majestic, but you are more majestic, and you rule over all.

Exodus 7:3

But I will make the king so stubborn that he won't listen to you. He won't listen even when I do many terrible things to him and his nation. Then I will bring a final punishment on Egypt, and the king will let Israel's families and tribes go.

Proverbs 16:1

We humans make plans, but the LORD has the final word.

Proverbs 16:9

We make our own plans, but the LORD decides where we will go.

Proverbs 20:24

How can we know what will happen to us when the LORD alone decides?

Isaiah 43:19

I am creating something new. There it is! Do you see it? I have put roads in deserts, streams in thirsty lands.

Isaiah 44:27

I am the one who commands the sea and its streams to run dry.

Jeremiah 39:12

“Find Jeremiah and keep him safe. Take good care of him and do whatever he asks.”

Daniel 4:35

To him the nations are far less than nothing; God controls the stars in the sky and everyone on this earth. When God does something, we cannot change it or even ask why.”

Acts 7:10

and rescued him from all his troubles. God made him so wise that the Egyptian king Pharaoh thought highly of him. Pharaoh even made Joseph governor over Egypt and put him in charge of everything he owned.

Revelation 16:12

The sixth angel emptied his bowl on the great River Euphrates, and it completely dried up to make a road for the kings from the east.

Revelation 16:4

The third angel emptied his bowl into the rivers and streams. At once they turned to blood.