Proverbs 21:1 “The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it…”

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

American Standard Version

The king’s heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.

Geneva Bible 1599

The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the riuers of waters: he turneth it whithersoeuer it pleaseth him.

Darby Translation

The king's heart in the hand of Jehovah is [as] brooks of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Young's Literal Translation

Rivulets of waters [is] the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.

Bible in Basic English

The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

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Cross references

“The king's”

Proverbs 16:9 Proverbs 20:24 Acts 7:10 Proverbs 16:1 Daniel 4:35 Psalm 106:46

Proverbs 16:9 · BSB

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

Proverbs 20:24 · BSB

A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

Acts 7:10 · BSB

and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

Proverbs 16:1 · BSB

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.

Daniel 4:35 · BSB

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Psalm 106:46 · BSB

He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

“as”

Isaiah 43:19 Psalm 74:15 Psalm 93:4 Isaiah 44:27 Revelation 16:4 Psalm 114:3

Isaiah 43:19 · BSB

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Psalm 74:15 · BSB

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Psalm 93:4 · BSB

Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

Isaiah 44:27 · BSB

who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

Revelation 16:4 · BSB

And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood.

Psalm 114:3 · BSB

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

Also

Ezra 6:22

Ezra 6:22 · BSB

For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.

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