Bible Verses About Nature's Challenges

For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.

And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: