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21 Many are the plans of the human heart,
    but it is the decision of the Lord that endures.(A)

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24 Our steps are from the Lord;(A)
    how, then, can mortals understand their way?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 20:24 An indication of the Lord’s inscrutable providence; cf. Jer 10:23; see Prv 21:2; cf. also 14:12.

Prayer of Jeremiah

23 I know, Lord,
    that no one chooses their way,
Nor determines their course
    nor directs their own step.

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