The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.
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Jerome
AD 420
The heart of Julian, the persecutor, of Nero, of Decius, are their hearts in the hand of God? No, the hearts in the hand of God are those who govern their body, who bring it into subjection and compel it to servitude, lest preaching to others they themselves should be rejected. These are the kings of whom Wisdom says in Proverbs, “He gives kingship to kings.” Homilies on the Psalms (Psalm ).
