Proverbs 21:1
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21 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;
he turns it wherever he will.
Proverbs 16:9
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9 The human mind plans the way,
but the Lord directs the steps.(A)
Proverbs 20:24
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24 All our steps are ordered by the Lord;
how then can we understand our own ways?(A)
Ezra 6:22
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22 With joy they celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days, 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 on the house of God, the God of Israel.(A)
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Acts 7:10
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10 and rescued him from all his afflictions and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.(A)
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Proverbs 16:1
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16 The plans of the mind belong to mortals,
but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Daniel 4:35
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35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and he does what he wills with the host of heaven
and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can stay his hand
or say to him, “What have you done?”(A)
Psalm 106:46
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46 He caused them to be pitied
by all who held them captive.(A)
Ezra 7:27-28
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27 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(A) 28 and who extended to me 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 upon me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.(B)
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Isaiah 43:19
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19 I am about to do 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.(A)
Psalm 105:25
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25 whose hearts he then turned to hate his people,
to deal craftily with his servants.(A)
Nehemiah 1:11
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11 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.(A)
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Nehemiah 2:4
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4 Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.(A)
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Psalm 74:15
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15 You cut openings for springs and torrents;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.(A)
Isaiah 44:27
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27 who says to the deep, “Be dry—
I will dry up your rivers”;(A)
Revelation 16:4
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4 The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.(A)
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Psalm 93:4
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4 More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
more majestic than the waves[a] of the sea,
majestic on high is the Lord!(A)
Footnotes
- 93.4 Cn: Heb majestic are the waves
Revelation 16:12
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12 The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great River Euphrates, and its water was dried up in order to prepare the way for the kings from the east.(A)
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Psalm 114:5
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5 Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
Psalm 114:3
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3 The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.(A)
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