A man's steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?
I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.
The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;
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