Bible Verses About The Providence of God: Ruling the elements

Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

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

Yochanan testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”