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.

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. . . .