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VERSES ABOUT NATURE
Think about this: God created everything. The earth, the sky, the whole world—it all belongs to Him. He made it all, just like Exodus 20:11 says: "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." He created it all perfectly, and He deserves all the praise for the amazing things He's done.
You know, we should really stand in awe of God and give Him glory. The time is coming when He will judge the world, so let's worship the One who made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and the springs of water.
When you're out enjoying nature – at the beach, in the mountains, or just looking at a beautiful tree – remember who made it all so beautiful and perfect. Let's give God all the glory He deserves.
A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
And God said, Let us make man in our image--after our likeness--and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth,
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee.Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee.Who does not know in all these, that the hand of LORD has wrought this,in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
Look to the birds of the sky, because they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not more valuable then they?
If thou see the donkey of him who hates thee lying under his burden, thou shall refrain leaving him. Thou shall surely release [it] with him.
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God. Thy judgments are a great deep. O LORD, thou preserve man and beast.
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to LORD thy God. Thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says LORD.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise.Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler,provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom have thou made them all. The earth is full of thy riches.
And in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and
And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?
If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shall not take the dam with the young.Thou shall surely let the dam go, but the young thou may take to thyself, that it may be well with thee, and that thou may prolong thy days.
Six days thou shall do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shall rest, that thine ox and thy donkey may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.
And LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, all the increase of it shall be for food.
Who provides for the raven his prey when his young ones cry to God, [and] wander for lack of food?
but the seventh year thou shall let it rest and lay fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shall deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.
Ye shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. Thou may give it to the sojourner who is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou may sell it to a foreigner, for thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. Thou shall not boil a
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.
Thou make him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou have put all things under his feet.All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field,the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
And having responded, he said to them, Of which of you will a son or an ox fall into a pit, and he will not straightaway lift him out on the day of the Sabbath?
Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?Will thou trust him because his strength is great? Or will thou leave to him thy labor?Will thou confide in him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [the grain] of thy threshing-floor?
The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
And having come, he wrapped up his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. And having set him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen,
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt-offerings [being] continually before me.I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts, even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts; for all is vanity.
There the dart-snake shall make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade. Yea, there the vultures shall be gathered, each one with her mate.
And he said to them, What man of you will there be, who will have one sheep, and if this falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not grasp it, and lift it out?How much therefore a man is superior to a sheep. So then it is permitted to do good on the Sabbath.
Do thou know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [Or] can thou mark when the hinds do calve?
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together. And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead [beast] shall be his.
I will feed them with good pasture, and their fold shall be upon the mountains of the height of Israel. There they shall lay down in a good fold, and on fat pasture they shall feed upon the mountains of Israel.
And out of the ground LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and whatever the man called every living creature, that was the name of it.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
Consider the ravens, because they do not sow, nor do they reap, for which there is no storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much ye are worth more than the birds.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upo
And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers. Thou shall fall upon the open field. Thou shall not be brought together, nor gathered. I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and t
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of LORD as the waters cover the sea.
How precious is thy loving kindness, O God, and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.
Yea, the sparrow has found her a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
And the agent of LORD said to him, Why have thou smitten thy donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me.And the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have even slain thee, and saved her alive.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort thou shall bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee. They shall be male and female.Of the birds according to their kind, and of the cattle according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two of every sort shall come to thee, to keep them alive.
Thou shall not see thy brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them. Thou shall surely help him to lift them up again.
Likewise thou shall do with thine oxen, [and] with thy sheep. Seven days it shall be with its dam. On the eighth day thou shall give it me.
who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.He gives to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry.
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven footed, [and] chews the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
Thou shall not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them. Thou shall surely bring them again to thy brother.
There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer,
And it shall be, that thou shall drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens, the male and his female. And of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female.Also of the birds of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
that thou shall set apart to LORD all that opens the womb. And every firstling which thou have that comes of a beast, the males shall be LORD's.
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to LORD thy God: thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thy donkey, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger tha
And she brought forth her son, the firstborn, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the feed trough, because there was no place for them in the inn.
what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?For thou have made him but little lower than [heavenly] agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.Thou make him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou have put all things under his feet.All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field,the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.
Have thou given the horse [his] might? Have thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?Have thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed. Neither does he turn back from the sword.The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage, nor does he believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.As often as the trumpet [sounds] he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shall not let thy cattle engender with a diverse kind. Thou shall not sow thy field with two kinds of seed, neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.
There are three things which are stately in their march, yea, four which are stately in going:The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, and turns not away from any,the greyhound, also the he-goat, and the king against whom there is no rising up.
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?
And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kind. And it was so.
For as to the life of all flesh, the blood of it is with the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh is the blood of it. Whoever eats it shall be c
He who slaughters an ox is as he who kills a man. He who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck. He who offers an oblation, [as] swine's blood. He who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yea, they have chosen t
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee.
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herbage for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth,and wine that makes glad the heart of man, [and] oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, [but] are they the pinions and plumage of love?For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust.And she forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor be in vain, [she is] without fear,because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has he imparted understanding to her.The time she lifts up herself on high she scorns the horse and his rider.
As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of LORD caused them to rest. So thou led thy people to make thyself a glorious name.