By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says the LORD.
Proverbs 21:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The king's heart is in the LORD's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) The king’s heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will. Common English Bible 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 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 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. |
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says the LORD.
Now in the first year of Koresh king of Paras, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Koresh king of Paras, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
Thus says Koresh king of Paras, All the kingdoms of the earth has the LORD, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah.
and kept the feast of matzah seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Ashur to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Yisra'el.
Lord, I beg you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cup bearer to the king.
Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
and a letter to Asaf the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.
The king loved Ester more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Yarden, that you turned back?
Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, The LORD on high is mighty.
I will harden Par`oh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.
A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?
Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as he shall tell you.
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Par`oh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Perat. Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrise.
The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.