Guidance & Direction Verses
Let God's word be a lamp to your feet. Verses on divine direction, purpose, and life's calling.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Because he hath oppressed {and} hath forsaken the poor; {because} he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; {oppressed: Heb. crushed}
The increase of his house shall depart, {and his goods} shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. {carrieth: Heb. stealeth}
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him {what} he hath done?
{Is it} any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or {is it} gain {to him}, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.