Proverbs 21:1 Cross References - ISV

¹ Thoughts on the Sovereignty of God A king’s heart is a water stream that the LORD controls; he directs it wherever he pleases.

²² Then they observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, because the LORD had made them glad, turning the heart of the king of Assyria toward them and strengthening them for their work on the Temple of God, the God of Israel.

²⁷ Ezra’s Response to the LetterBlessed be the LORD God of our ancestors, who placed this decree into the king’s heart to beautify the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem ²⁸ and who showed gracious love to me before the king, before his advisors, and before all of the king’s mighty officials.
And I was strengthened because the hand of the LORD my God was upon me. So I gathered together the leaders of Israel to go with me.

¹¹ “And now, Lord, I ask you to listen to the prayer of your servant—and to the prayers of your servants who delight in revering your Name. I ask you, please prosper your servant today by granting him to receive favor from this man.”
Now I was the king’s senior security advisor.

⁴ The king answered, “What do you want?”
So I prayed to the God of heaven

¹⁵ You opened both the spring and the river; you dried up flowing rivers.

⁴ More than the sound of surging waters— the majestic waves of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

²⁵ He caused them to hate his people and to deceive his servants.

⁴⁶ He caused all their captors to show compassion toward them.

³ The sea saw this and fled, the Jordan River ran backwards,

⁵ What happened to you, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you ran backwards?

¹ Wisdom’s Blessings People do the planning, but the end result is from the LORD.

⁹ A person plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

²⁴ A man’s steps are directed by the LORD; how then can anyone understand his own way?

¹⁹ Watch! I’m about to carry out something new! And now it’s springing up— don’t you recognize it? I’m making a way in the wilderness and paths in the desert.

²⁷ who says to the watery deep, “Be dry— I will dry up your rivers;”

³⁵ All who live on the earth are nothing compared to him. He does what he wishes with the heavenly armies and with those who live on earth. No one can hold back his power or say to him, ‘What did you do?’

¹⁰ and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler of Egypt and of his whole household.

⁴ The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

¹² The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great Euphrates River. Its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.