~ pleased the LORD to ~ 04_NUM_24_01  And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. #, 09_1SA_12_22  For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. #, 23_ISA_53_10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief, when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. #,