Quotes about Providence
A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.
— Proverbs 21:31
For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
— Proverbs 23:18
Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
— Ecclesiastes 2:24
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
— Ecclesiastes 8:7
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
— Ecclesiastes 9:1
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
— Ecclesiastes 11:5
For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
— Isaiah 3:1
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
— Isaiah 18:6
Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
— Isaiah 31:2
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
— Isaiah 40:12
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
— Isaiah 44:27
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
— Isaiah 45:1