Bible Verses About Divine Sovereignty

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high,

The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.

It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.

Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.