The preparations of the heart [belong] to man, But the answer of the tongue [is] from the LORD.

A man's heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.

A man's steps [are] of the LORD; How then can a man understand his own way?

Blessed [be] the LORD God of our fathers, who has put [such a thing] as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem,

and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God [was] upon me; and I gathered leading men of Israel to go up with me.

"O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." For I was the king's cupbearer.

Then the king said to me, "What do 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 to be pitied By all those who carried them away captive.

All the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And [among] the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, "What have You done?"

"and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty rivers.

The LORD on high [is] mightier Than the noise of many waters, [Than] the mighty waves of the sea.

The sea saw [it] and fled; Jordan turned back.

What ails you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, [that] you turned back?

Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness [And] rivers in the desert.

Who says to the deep, 'Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers';

Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.