Bible Verses About The Providence of God

So long as the earth exists, sowing time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

He said, "ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, please let me succeed today; and show your grace to my master Avraham.

Here I am, standing by the spring, as the daughters of the townsfolk come out to draw water.

I will say to one of the girls, 'Please lower your jug, so that I can drink.' If she answers, 'Yes, drink; and I will water your camels as well,' then let her be the one you intend for your servant Yitz'chak. This is how I will know that you have shown grace to my master."

bowed my head, prostrated myself before ADONAI and blessed ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, for having led me in the right way to obtain my master's brother's [grand]daughter for his son.

He answered them, "Don't delay me, since ADONAI has made my trip successful, but let me go back to my master."

Ya'akov took this vow: "If God will be with me and will guard me on this road that I am traveling, giving me bread to eat and clothes to wear,

so that I return to my father's house in peace, then ADONAI will be my God;

But don't be sad that you sold me into slavery here or angry at yourselves, because it was God who sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

The famine has been over the land for the last two years, and for yet another five years there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

God sent me ahead of you to ensure that you will have descendants on earth and to save your lives in a great deliverance.

Then he blessed Yosef: "The God in whose presence my fathers Avraham and Yitz'chak lived, the God who has been my own shepherd all my life long to this day,

You meant to do me harm, but God meant it for good -so that it would come about as it is today, with many people's lives being saved.

The enemy said, 'I will pursue and overtake, divide the spoil and gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.'

You blew with your wind, the sea covered them, they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Who is like you, ADONAI, among the mighty? Who is like you, sublime in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?

You reached out with your right hand: the earth swallowed them.

In your love, you led the people you redeemed; in your strength, you guided them to your holy abode.

The peoples have heard, and they tremble; anguish takes hold of those living in P'leshet;

then the chiefs of Edom are dismayed; trepidation seizes the heads of Mo'av; all those living in Kena'an are melted away.

Terror and dread fall on them; by the might of your arm they are still as stone until your people pass over, ADONAI, till the people you purchased pass over.

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain which is your heritage, the place, ADONAI, that you made your abode, the sanctuary, Adonai, which your hands established.

ADONAI will reign forever and ever.

For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and with his cavalry into the sea, but ADONAI brought the sea waters back upon them, while the people of Isra'el walked on dry land in the midst of the sea!"

because ADONAI had said of them, "They will surely die in the desert." So there was not left even one of them, except Kalev the son of Y'funeh and Y'hoshua the son of Nun.