¹ The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

⁹ A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

²⁴ Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

²² And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

¹⁰ And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

⁴⁶ He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

¹ The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

²⁷ Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:

²⁸ And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

¹¹ O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

⁴ Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

¹⁵ Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

²⁷ That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

⁴ The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.