TSK · Proverbs 21:1

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

¶ The Decree of Cyrus In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the LORD’s message spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD motivated King Cyrus of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout his kingdom and also to put it in writing. It read:

They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the LORD had given them joy and had changed the opinion of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he assisted them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.

Please, Lord, listen attentively to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me in the presence of this man.” Now I was cupbearer for the king.

and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, for the good hand of my God was on me.

You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.

The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.

The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD.

The steps of a person are ordained by the LORD– so how can anyone understand his own way?

who says to the deep sea,‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’

All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’

Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.