21 A king’s heart is as streams of water in the hand of Jehovah.+ Everywhere that he delights to, he turns it.+

31 At length it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Je·hoiʹa·chin+ the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Eʹvil-merʹo·dach the king of Babylon, in the year of his becoming king,* raised up the head+ of Je·hoiʹa·chin the king of Judah and proceeded to bring him forth from the prison house.