Bible Verses About The Providence of God

From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,

Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.

Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness--He doth cause it to come.

I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because--at my right hand I am not moved.

In Thy hand are my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

Thy righteousness is as mountains of God, Thy judgments are a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness-- is elevation.

But God is judge, This He maketh low--and this He lifteth up.

In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence.

With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler is His truth.

For His messengers He chargeth for thee, To keep thee in all thy ways,

He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

They go up hills--they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.

A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

All of them unto Thee do look, To give their food in its season.

Thou dost give to them--they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand--they are satisfied with good.

In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.