ייִדישער מחשבֿה אויף תהילים 68:7

We read in Sotah 2, Rabbi Samuel said that whenever Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish opened the tractate of Sotah, he would say that marriages are arranged for a person by heaven, and that each party is assigned a partner that is appropriate for what he or she deserves based on their deeds. It is written (Psalms 125,3), "The scepter of the wicked will never rest on the land allotted to the righteous." Rabbi bar Chanah said in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, "Arranging such marriages is as difficult as splitting the sea of reeds, since it is written "G-d makes the solitary settle in a house. He leads forth the ones chained in their bonds; read instead "like leading forth" (Psalms 68,7). This is however not so, since Rabbi Yehudah has said in the name of Rav that forty days before the development of the fetus, a heavenly voice announces that the daughter of X will become the wife of Y. The Talmud continues that we do not have a contradiction here. The first statement refers to the first zivvug, matching up, whereas the second statement refers to the second zivvug, matching up.