Proverbs 21:1
Good News Translation
The LORD controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.

New Revised Standard Version
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD controls rulers, just as he determines the course of rivers.

New American Bible
A king’s heart is channeled water in the hand of the LORD; God directs it where he pleases.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.

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Psalm 74:15 Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.

Psalm 93:4 With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord on high.

Psalm 114:3,5 The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. . . .

Isaiah 43:19 Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 44:27 Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.

Revelation 16:4,12 And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters. And there was made blood. . . .

Context
The King's Heart
1As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.2Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.…
Cross References
Ezra 6:22
And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the house of the Lord the God of Israel.

Jeremiah 39:12
Take him, and set thy eyes upon him, and do him no harm: but as he hath a mind, so do with him.

Proverbs 20:30
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