Lamentations 3:37 BSB

Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מִ֣י	mi	who?	H4310 →
זֶ֤ה	zeh	this	H2088 →
אָמַר֙	'a.Mar	has he spoken	H559 →
וַתֶּ֔הִי	va.Te.hi	and it was	H1961 →
אֲדֹנָ֖י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
צִוָּֽה׃	tzi.Vah	he commanded [it]	H6680 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
leads to
- Proverbs 19:21
  Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 16:1
  The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 37:23
  The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
- Proverbs 20:24
  A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
- Jeremiah 10:23
  I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
Through
Proverbs 19:21
Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
leads to
- Proverbs 16:9
  A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
- Isaiah 14:24
  The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
- Psalms 33:10–11
  The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Isaiah 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”Psalms 33:9–11For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.Psalms 37:5Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.Job 22:28Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’Proverbs 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.Proverbs 19:21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.Psalms 33:11The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”Isaiah 7:7But this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘It will not arise; it will not happen.James 4:15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,James 4:13–15Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”Romans 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”Isaiah 14:24The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.Acts 5:38So in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone. Let them go! For if their purpose or endeavor is of human origin, it will fail.Malachi 1:4Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.

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