Bible Verses About The Providence of God

For [their king] says, 'Aren't all my commanders kings?

Hasn't Kalno [suffered] like Kark'mish, Hamat like Arpad, Shomron like Dammesek?

Just as my hand reached the kingdoms of non-gods, with more images than in Yerushalayim and Shomron;

so won't I do to Yerushalayim and her non-gods what I did to Shomron and her idols?'"

Therefore when Adonai has done everything he intends to do to Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim, "I will punish the king of Ashur for the boasting that comes from his proud heart and from reveling in his arrogant looks.

For he says, "'With my own strong arm I have done this, and with my wisdom, because I'm so clever! I erased the boundaries between peoples, I plundered their stores for the future; as a mighty man, I subjugated the inhabitants.

My hand found the riches of the peoples like a nest; and as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered the whole earth! Not one wing fluttered, not one beak opened or let out a chirp!'"

Should the axe glorify itself over the one who chops with it? Should the saw magnify itself over the one who moves it? It's as if a stick could wave the hand that raises it up, or as if a wooden staff could lift [a person, who is] not made of wood.

Therefore the Lord, ADONAI-Tzva'ot, will send leanness to his well-fed ones; and in place of his glory, a fire will be kindled that will burn and burn.

The light of Isra'el will become a fire and his Holy One a flame, burning and devouring his thorns and briars in a single day.

"I, ADONAI, guard it. Moment to moment I water it. So that no harm will come to it, I guard it night and day.

Like hovering birds, ADONAI-Tzva'ot will protect Yerushalayim. In protecting it, he will rescue it; in sparing it, he will save it.

Who is like me? Let him speak out! Let him show me clearly what has been happening since I set up the eternal people; let him foretell future signs and events.

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;

who caused his glorious arm to go at Moshe's right hand? He divided the water ahead of them, to make himself an eternal name;

like cattle going down into a valley the Spirit of ADONAI had them rest. This is how you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name."

"Human being, tell the prince of Tzor that Adonai ELOHIM says: 'Because you are so proud and have said, "I am a god; I sit on the throne of God, surrounded by the sea"; yet you are a man, not God, even though you think that you think like God.

Sure, you are wiser than Dani'el! No secret can be hidden from you!

By your wisdom and discernment you have acquired wealth, you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.

By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and it is because of your wealth that you have become so proud.

"Therefore Adonai ELOHIM says, 'Because you think that you think like God,

I will bring foreigners against you, the most barbarous of the nations, to draw their swords against your fine wisdom and defile your splendor.

They will lower you into the pit to die a violent death surrounded by the sea.

Will you still say, "I am God," to them who are about to kill you? You are a man, you are not God, in the hands of those who defile you.

You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken,' says Adonai ELOHIM."