Isaiah 54:16
Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.
Exodus 9:16
But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
Proverbs 16:4
The Lord works everything for its own ends -- even the wicked for the day of disaster.
Isaiah 10:5-6
Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
Isaiah 10:15
Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!
Isaiah 37:26
Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.
Isaiah 46:11
who summons an eagle from the east, from a distant land, one who carries out my plan. Yes, I have decreed, yes, I will bring it to pass; I have formulated a plan, yes, I will carry it out.
Daniel 4:34-35
But at the end of the appointed time I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me. I extolled the Most High, and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever. For his authority is an everlasting authority, and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.
John 19:11
Jesus replied, "You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin."