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24 All our steps are ordered by the Lord;
    how then can we understand our own ways?(A)

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23 I know, O Lord, that the way of humans is not in their control,
    that mortals as they walk cannot direct their steps.(A)

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The human mind plans the way,
    but the Lord directs the steps.(A)

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12 Who are they who fear the Lord?
    He will teach them the way that they should choose.

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23 Our steps[a] are made firm by the Lord
    when he delights in our[b] way;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 37.23 Heb A man’s steps
  2. 37.23 Heb his

Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
    teach me your paths.(A)

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28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,

‘For we, too, are his offspring.’(A)

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It is the wisdom of the clever to understand where they go,
    but the folly of fools misleads.(A)

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23 You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. 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 power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.(A)

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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.(A)
But this is not what he intends,
    nor does he have this in mind,
but it is in his heart to destroy
    and to cut off nations not a few.(B)

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