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⁵Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. ⁶In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.

⁸I will give you understanding, and I will instruct you in this way, in which you will walk. I will fix my eyes upon you.

²³The steps of a man will be directed by the Lord, and he will choose his way.

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.

²And the Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and fortitude, the spirit of knowledge and piety.

³Cry out to me and I will heed you. And I will announce to you great things, things that are certain, though you do not know them.

²³The steps of a man will be directed by the Lord, and he will choose his way. ²⁴When he falls, he will not be harmed, because the Lord places his hand under him.

⁷And the Lord said to me: “Do not choose to say, ‘I am a boy.’ For you shall go forth to everyone to whom I will send you. And you shall speak all that I will command you. ⁸You should not be afraid before their face. For I am with you, so that I may deliver you,” says the Lord.

⁹The heart of man disposes his way. But it is for Lord to direct his steps.

¹It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue. ²All the ways of a man are open to his eyes; the Lord is the one who weighs spirits.

¹⁴God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time. ¹⁵Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,

¹⁶Thus says the Lord, who gave you a way through the sea and a path through the torrent of waters, ¹⁷who led out the chariot and the horse, the column of robust troops. They went to sleep together, and they will not arise. They have been crushed like flax, and they have been extinguished. ¹⁸You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity. ¹⁹Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.

³He has converted my soul. He has led me away on the paths of justice, for the sake of his name.

¹⁰⁵Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths.

¹⁷Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord, your God, who teaches you beneficial things, who guides you in the way that you walk. ¹⁸If only you had paid attention to my commandments! Your peace would have been like a river, and your justice would have been like the waves of the sea,

²¹And your ears will listen to the word of one admonishing you behind your back: “This is the way! Walk in it! And do not turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left.”