Proverbs 21:1 - Tree of Life Version

¹ A king’s heart is like a stream of water in the hand of Adonai; he directs it wherever He wants.

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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.

Proverbs 21:1 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 19:33

By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come into this city” —it is a declaration of Adonai.

Ezra 1:1

Now in the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to accomplish the word of Adonai from the mouth of Jeremiah, Adonai stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom, announcing in a written edict, saying:

Ezra 1:2

“Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: Adonai, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build a House for Him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 6:22

They celebrated the Feast of Matzot with joy for seven days, because Adonai had given them joy and had changed the heart of the king of Assyria toward them so as to strengthen their hands in the work on the House of God, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 1:11

Please, my 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 Your servant success today and grant compassion in the presence of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.

Nehemiah 2:4

The king asked me, “What is your request?” Then I prayed to the God of heaven,

Nehemiah 2:8

as well as a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest so he will give me lumber to make beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the Temple, for the wall of the city and for the residence I will occupy.” The king granted me the requests because the good hand of my God was upon me.

Esther 2:17

Now the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she won his grace and favor more than all the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Psalm 105:25

He turned their hearts to hate His people, to deal shrewdly with His servants.

Psalm 106:46

He caused them to be pitied in the presence of all their captors.

Psalm 114:3

The sea saw and fled, the Jordan turned back.

Psalm 114:5

Why was it, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back?

Psalm 74:15

You opened up spring and brook. You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

Psalm 93:4

More than the sounds of many waters— more majestic than the breakers of the sea— so majestic is Adonai on high!

Exodus 7:3

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

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the tongue’s answer is from Adonai.

Proverbs 16:9

The heart of man plans his course, but Adonai directs his steps.

Proverbs 20:24

A man’s steps are directed by Adonai. How then can anyone understand his own way?

Isaiah 43:19

Here I am, doing a new thing; Now it is springing up— do you not know about it? I will surely make a way in the desert, rivers in the wasteland.

Isaiah 44:27

while saying to the deep, “Be dry, I will dry up your rivers,”

Jeremiah 39:12

“Take him, and look after him, and do no harm to him; rather, do to him just as he tells you.”

Acts 7:10

He rescued him out of all his troubles and granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

Revelation 16:12

The sixth angel poured out his bowl over the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Revelation 16:4

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