 | William Jay - 1834 - 330 pàgines
...his hands." Solomon has told us, and not without reason, that "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water; he turneth it whithersoever he will." Eastern monarchs were absolute; they consulted nothing but their own pleasure: yet God had them more... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 730 pàgines
...nevertheless, the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand ;"t that " the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will ;"t and that " his counsel shall stand, and he will do all his pleasure.'! His purposes are declared... | |
 | 1838 - 594 pàgines
...this she had nothing to do : she knew that it was written, " the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord ; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will." As the handmaid of Jehovah, she was at his disposal, and bowing herself implicitly to his will, she... | |
 | 1835 - 206 pàgines
...conduct subservient to the Divine counsels. The wise man says "the king's heart is in the hands of the Lord, as the rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he will;" and the same must be true of every human heart, otherwise God could not accomplish his purposes, "and do... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1835 - 276 pàgines
...the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past? * The king'a heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water ; he turneth it whithersoever he will. Prov. xxi. 1. Only, since our souls will shrink At the touch of natural grief, When our earthly loved... | |
 | Seth Williston - 1836 - 664 pàgines
...king's heart " (ie the heart of the most independent and powerful among men) " is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will." " For it is God who worketh in you, both to wiU and to do of his good pleasure." Prov. xvi. 1 ; xxi.... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1836 - 380 pàgines
...create evil; I the Lord do all these things. — Prov. xxi. 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water; he turneth it whithersoever he will. — Gen. xlv. 7. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your... | |
 | William Thistlethwaite - 1837 - 982 pàgines
...would not " do this great wickedness." " The king's heart," saith the proverb, " is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will." So are the hearts of all. And while he left this king's heart, as that of his successor, to harden... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 644 pàgines
...munificence of Ahasuerus, than she was before afraid of his austerity. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he will. It is not good to swallow favours too greedily ; lest they either choke us in the passage, or prove... | |
 | 1837 - 324 pàgines
...hosts ; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. IT PR. 21:1. The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will. ISA. 45: 13. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build... | |
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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. 
