When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Jeremiah 39:12 - King James 2000 Take him, and look well after him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Take him and look after him well; do him no harm but deal with him as he may ask of you. American Standard Version (1901) Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. Common English Bible “Find Jeremiah and look after him; don’t harm him but do whatever he asks from you.” Catholic Public Domain Version "Take him, and set your eyes on him, and you shall do no harm to him at all. But as he is willing, so shall you do with him." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Take him and set thy eyes upon him and do him no harm: but as he hath a mind, so do with him. |
When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with your remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to treat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban the Rabsaris, and Nergal-sharezer the Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon’s other officers;
And now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which were upon your hand. If it seems good unto you to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well after you: but if it seems wrong unto you to come with me into Babylon, remain here: behold, all the land is before you: where it seems good and convenient for you to go, there go.
And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for harm, and not for good.
And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.