The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
A man's steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?
And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.
Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.
You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
who says to the deep, ‘Be dry; I will dry up your rivers’;
Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!
The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.
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