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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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fishes of the sea shall declare to you.Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has worked this?In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
If you see the ass of him that hates you lying under his burden, and would forbear to help him, you shall surely help with him.
Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your 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, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, said the LORD.
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches.
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young:But you shall in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest: that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatted calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
And for your cattle, and for the beast that are in your land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for lack of meat.
But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie still; that the poor of your people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive grove.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are an holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?Can you bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after you?Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him?Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?
The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen?
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
And he said to them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?How much then is a man better than a sheep? Why it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?
Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on 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 an ass fall therein;The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
I will feed them in a good pasture, and on the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are you better than the fowls?
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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall on the open fields; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given you for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
But they that wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Yes, the sparrow has found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you smitten your ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me:And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain you, and saved her alive.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall you bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
Likewise shall you do with your oxen, and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day you shall give it me.
Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which you shall 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 shall you eat.
You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall in any case bring them again to your brother.
There be four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceeding wise:The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
Of every clean beast you shall take to you by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.
That you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the matrix, and every firstling that comes of a beast which you have; the males shall be the LORD's.
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
Every moving thing that lives shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.
Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?Can you make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: he goes on to meet the armed men.He mocks at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turns he back from the sword.The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believes he that it is the sound of the trumpet.He said among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle engender with a diverse kind: you shall not sow your field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come on you.
There be three things which go well, yes, four are comely in going:A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any;A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whoever eats it shall be cut off.
He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb 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 which strengthens man's heart.
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Gave you the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich?Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labor is in vain without fear;Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.What time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.
By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.