Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?
Proverbs 16:1 - New Revised Standard Version The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The preparations of the heart in man, And the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THE PLANS of the mind and orderly thinking belong to man, but from the Lord comes the [wise] answer of the tongue. American Standard Version (1901) The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. Common English Bible To people belong the plans of the heart, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue. |
Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?
When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him; and Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him. God drew them away from him,
Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,
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.
O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek; you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear
You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility goes before honor.
The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.
All our steps are ordered by the Lord; how then can we understand our own ways?
The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
I know, O Lord, that the way of human beings is not in their control, that mortals as they walk cannot direct their steps.
But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.
for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.