Bible Verses About The Providence of God: Ruling the elements

"Out of its chamber comes the storm, with cold out of the north.

By the breath of God, ice is given, and the wide waters freeze over.

He weighs the clouds down with moisture, and they flash forth his lightning.

He, by his plans, turns them around, so they do what he commands them anywhere on earth;

he brings them forth on the earth sometimes to punish, sometimes to express his grace.

Why was no one here when I came? Why, when I called, did nobody answer? Is my arm too short to redeem? Have I too little power to save? With my rebuke I dry up the sea; I turn rivers into desert, their fish rot for lack of water and they die of thirst;

He rebukes the sea and leaves it dry, he dries up all the rivers. Bashan and the Karmel languish; the flower of the L'vanon withers.

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

Yochanan witnessed concerning him when he cried out, “This is the man I was talking about when I said, ‘The one coming after me has come to rank ahead of me, because he existed before me.’”