10 Bible Verses about God Hindering

So Sarai told Abram, "You are well aware that the LORD has prevented me from giving birth to a child. Go have sex with my servant, so that I may possibly bear a son through her."

Now get out of here! I had promised you that I would definitely honor you, but now the LORD has kept me from doing that!"

He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven.

The LORD makes void the counsel of nations; he frustrates the plans of nations.

He made the wheels of their chariots wobble so that they drove them with difficulty. The Egyptians said, "Let's flee from Israel because the LORD is fighting for them and against us."

Absalom and all of the Israelis replied, "The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel's!"

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "I'm about to put stumbling blocks in front of this people, and fathers and sons will stumble over them together. The neighbor and his friends will perish."

"When a righteous man abandons his righteousness to practice unrighteousness, I'll set a stumbling block before him. He'll die. If you don't warn him, he'll die in his sin and the righteous deeds that he had practiced won't be remembered, but you'll be held responsible for his death.

Our opponents heard that we had learned about them, that God had brought their plans to failure, and that each and every one of us had come to work on the wall.