24 A person’s steps are directed(A) by the Lord.(B)
    How then can anyone understand their own way?(C)

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Jeremiah’s Prayer

23 Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own;
    it is not for them to direct their steps.(A)

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In their hearts humans plan their course,
    but the Lord establishes their steps.(A)

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12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?(A)
    He will instruct them in the ways(B) they should choose.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 25:12 Or ways he chooses

23 The Lord makes firm the steps(A)
    of the one who delights(B) in him;

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Show me your ways, Lord,
    teach me your paths.(A)

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28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a](A) As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:28 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides
  2. Acts 17:28 From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus

23 Instead, you have set yourself up against(A) the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives(B) and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.(C) But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life(D) and all your ways.(E)

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The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways,(A)
    but the folly of fools is deception.(B)

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I send him against a godless(A) nation,
    I dispatch(B) him against a people who anger me,(C)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,(D)
    and to trample(E) them down like mud in the streets.
But this is not what he intends,(F)
    this is not what he has in mind;
his purpose is to destroy,
    to put an end to many nations.

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