Bible Verses About The Providence of God

By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.

I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.

The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight

For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.

Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.

He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.

For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.