The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord;
He turns it wherever He wishes.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

And they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had caused them to rejoice, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to encourage them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere Your name, and make Your servant successful today and grant him compassion before this man.”Now I was the cupbearer to the king.

Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

You broke open springs and torrents;
You dried up ever-flowing streams.

More than the sounds of many waters,
Than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.

He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.

He also made them objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.

The sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back.

What ails you, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?

The plans of the heart belong to man,
But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

The mind of man plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.

Man’s steps are ordained by the Lord,
How then can man understand his way?

“Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.

“It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of earth;
And no one can ward off His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’

and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east.

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The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

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The king's

The plans of the heart belong to man,
But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Man’s steps are ordained by the Lord,
How then can man understand his way?
Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,
O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere Your name, and make Your servant successful today and grant him compassion before this man.”Now I was the cupbearer to the king.
Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
He also made them objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.
All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of earth;
And no one can ward off His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’
and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

As

You broke open springs and torrents;
You dried up ever-flowing streams.
More than the sounds of many waters,
Than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.
The sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back.
“Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
“It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.
Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.

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Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
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