New Revised Standard Version
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

Contemporary English Version
Yes, Father, this is what pleased you.

New American Bible
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

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Job 33:13 Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?

Isaiah 46:10 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me:

Luke 10:21 In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight.

Romans 9:18 Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he hardeneth.

Romans 11:33-36 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! . . .

Ephesians 1:9,11 That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him, . . .

Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:

2 Timothy 1:9 Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world: