Proverbs 20:24

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk.

to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.