 | Religion - 1831 - 416 pages
...this is but a proper reliance on the direct influence which God can exert on the heart? of rulers. " The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the risers of water ; he turneth it whithersoever he will." The thoughts and purposes of the mightiest... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...When a man's ways please the Ixird, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Pr. xvi. 7- The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the...rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will. Pr. xxi. 1. Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth ; and break forth into singing, O mountains : for... | |
 | Tresham Dames Gregg - 1832 - 114 pages
...point of view, every thing else would follow as a matter of course. And let us recollect that •' the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of waters he turneth it whithersoever he will." But how shall he be brought to take these views? This... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...above them. He restrains or diverts them by his power when he does not govern them by his grace. " The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of waters : he turneth it whithersoever he will." He often permits his people to fall into the greatest... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1832 - 736 pages
...does control at pleasure the moral actions of his creatures. The king's heart is in the hand of (he Lord, as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The way of 'man is not in himself ; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. The heart of... | |
 | Tom Williams - 2000 - 108 pages
...the entire amount! I don't know how much his bill would have been, but I do know that the Bible says, "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the...rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will" (Prov. 21:1). God had again intervened for us in a tremendous way. We flew to Denver. Pam was admitted... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 108 pages
...4:32). For His purpose, God moves kings and empires as well as individuals. As Proverbs 21:1 says, "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it withersoever he will." So the plans of God for the future are often prophesied in great detail. For... | |
 | Simon Barton, Richard Fletcher - History - 2000 - 300 pages
...his guilt. The king received him peacefully and spoke fine words to him, for as the holy author says: 'The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water.'"'' The count stayed at the king's palace in great honour for many days; afterwards he asked the king with... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - Fiction - 2001 - 308 pages
...gray head. The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the...rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - Religion - 2001 - 524 pages
...Whatever the LORD pleases he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps. Psalm 135:6 NRSV The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the...rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Proverbs 21:1 KJV In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to... | |
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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. 
