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24 The Lord directs our steps,
    so why try to understand everything along the way?

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We can make our plans,
    but the Lord determines our steps.

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Jeremiah’s Prayer

23 I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own.
    We are not able to plan our own course.

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12 Who are those who fear the Lord?
    He will show them the path they should choose.

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23 The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
    He delights in every detail of their lives.

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Show me the right path, O Lord;
    point out the road for me to follow.

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28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your[a] own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

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Footnotes

  1. 17:28 Some manuscripts read our.

23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!

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The prudent understand where they are going,
    but fools deceive themselves.

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I am sending Assyria against a godless nation,
    against a people with whom I am angry.
Assyria will plunder them,
    trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.
But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool;
    his mind does not work that way.
His plan is simply to destroy,
    to cut down nation after nation.

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