Verses about providence

Yours, YHWH, are the greatness and the might and the beauty and the eminence and the splendor, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours. Yours, YHWH, is the kingdom, and you are the one who exalts himself as head over all. Riches and glory come from before you, and you rule over all; in your hand are strength and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to strengthen all.

YHWH in the heavens has established his throne, and his kingdom over all rules.

And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to the heavens, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed Illaya, and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever, whose dominion is an eternal dominion, and his kingdom is with generation and generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and according to his will he does among the army of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth; and there is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Streams of water is the heart of the king in the hand of YHWH; he turns it to whatever he wishes.

And Job answered YHWH and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no plan is beyond reach for you.

And he is before all things, and all things hold together in him.

He, being the radiance of his glory and the exact imprint of his being, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, having made purification for sins by himself, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Sing to YHWH with thanksgiving; sing psalms to our Elohim with the lyre, who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes sprout grass on the mountains, who gives to the livestock its food, to the young of the raven that cry out.

The eyes of all wait for you, and you give them their food in its season. You open your hand and satisfy every living thing with favor.

You have visited the land and watered it; greatly you enrich it. The stream of Elohim is full of water; you prepare their grain, for so you prepare it. Its furrows you drench, you level its clods; with downpours you soften it; its sprouts you bless. You have crowned the year of your goodness, and your tracks drip richness. The pastures of the wilderness drip, and with jubilation the hills gird themselves. The meadows have put on flocks, and the valleys are covered with grain; they shout aloud, and also they sing.

Can you hunt prey for the lioness, or the appetite of the young lions fill, when they crouch in their dwellings and lie in the thicket in ambush? Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young cry for help to El and wander without food?

Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Consider the ravens, that they do not sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds! And which of you by worrying can add a cubit to the length of his life? If then you cannot even do the least thing, why do you worry about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they do not toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith!

The word of YHWH came to him, saying, “Go from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. And it will be that you will drink from the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” So he went and did according to the word of YHWH; he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. And the ravens were bringing him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

A song for the ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; from where will come my help? My help comes from YHWH, who made heaven and earth. May he not let your foot be moved; may he not slumber, the one who keeps you. Look, he will not slumber and will not sleep, the one who keeps Israel. YHWH is the one who keeps you; YHWH is your shade at your right hand. By day the sun will not strike you, nor the moon by night. YHWH will keep you from all evil; he will keep your soul. YHWH will keep your going out and your coming in from now and forever.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. He said, “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. And now, do not be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for to preserve life Elohim sent me before you. For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing or harvest. Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but Elohim; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

His brothers also went and fell down before him and said, “Here we are as your slaves.” Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of Elohim? As for you, you planned evil against me; Elohim planned it for good, in order to bring about what is happening today: keeping alive many people. So now, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke to their heart.

And they made known to Mordecai the words of Esther. And Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine for yourself that you will escape in the king’s house more than all the Jews. For if you really keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and the house of your father will perish. And who knows whether for a time like this you have come to the kingdom?”

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested by God to you by miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know, this man, handed over by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed by nailing him to a cross by the hand of lawless men. Him God raised up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

And because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations —therefore, so that I would not become conceited, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to beat me— so that I would not become conceited. About this three times I begged the Lord that it might depart from me. And he has said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for power is made complete in weakness.” So most gladly I will boast all the more in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Messiah may dwell upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions and distresses, for the sake of the Messiah; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, the work of the olive lies, and the fields do not produce food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there are no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in YHWH; I will rejoice in the Elohim of my salvation. YHWH Adonai is my strength, and he makes my feet like those of the deer, and on my high places he makes me walk. For the director. With my stringed instruments.

By YHWH the steps of a man are made firm, and in his way he delights. When he falls, he will not be hurled down, for YHWH sustains his hand.

The heart of a man plans his way, but YHWH establishes his step.

Many are the plans in the heart of a man, but the counsel of YHWH, it will stand.

From YHWH are the steps of a man; and a human being, how can he understand his way?

A song of the ascents. Of Solomon. If YHWH does not build a house, in vain its builders toil on it; if YHWH does not keep a city, in vain the keeper stays awake. It is in vain for you to rise early to get up, to be late to sit down, to eat the bread of anxious toils; so he gives to his beloved sleep.

YHWH has annulled the counsel of the nations; he has frustrated the thoughts of the peoples. The counsel of YHWH stands firm forever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

Why are the nations in turmoil, and the peoples meditate a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand, and the dignitaries conspire together against YHWH and against his anointed: “Let us tear apart their bonds and cast away from us their ropes.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; Adonai mocks them. Then he will speak to them in his anger, and with his burning wrath he will dismay them: “But I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”

YHWH Tsevaot has sworn, saying, “Surely as I have intended, so it will be, and as I have planned, it will stand: to break Assyria in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke will depart from them, and his burden will depart from his shoulder.” This is the plan that is planned concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For YHWH Tsevaot has planned it, and who will annul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger! And the staff in their hand is my indignation. Against a godless nation I send it, and against the people of my fury I command it, to take spoil and to seize plunder, and to make it a thing trampled like the mud of the streets. But he does not imagine it so, and his heart does not plan so; for to destroy is in his heart, and to cut off nations not a few.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways,” declares YHWH. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are higher my ways than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

For I know the plans that I am planning for you, declares YHWH, plans of peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

For truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had determined beforehand to take place.