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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 regardeth the life of his beast;\par\tab 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 creepeth upon the earth.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle,\par\tab And herb for the service of man;\par\tab That he may bring forth food out of the earth,
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;\par\tab And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee;\par\tab And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.Who knoweth not in all these,\par\tab That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,\par\tab And the breath of all mankind?
Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,\par\tab {\i And} look well to thy herds:
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God;\par\tab Thy judgments are a great deep:\par\tab O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.
but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt 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, saith Jehovah.\par
Go to the ant, thou sluggard;\par\tab Consider her ways, and be wise:Which having no chief,\par\tab Overseer, or ruler,Provideth her bread in the summer,\par\tab And gathereth her food in the harvest.
Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.
O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works!\par\tab In wisdom hast thou made them all:\par\tab The earth is full of thy riches.
And in that day will I 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 will make them to lie down safely.
and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?\par
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 shalt not take the dam with the young:thou shalt surely let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.
And Jehovah 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, shall all the increase thereof be for food.
Who provideth for the raven his prey,\par\tab When his young ones cry unto God,\par\tab {\i And} wander for lack of food?\par
but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
For every beast of the forest is mine,\par\tab And the cattle upon a thousand hills.I know all the birds of the mountains;\par\tab 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, {\i and} will gently lead those that have their young.\par
Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;\par\tab Thou hast put all things under his feet:All sheep and oxen,\par\tab Yea, and the beasts of the field,The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,\par\tab Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
And he said unto them, {\cf6 Which of you shall have a son or an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day?}
Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge;\par\tab But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee?\par\tab Or will he abide by thy crib?Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow?\par\tab Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great?\par\tab Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed,\par\tab And gather {\i the grain} of thy threshing-floor?\par
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 came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on {\i them} oil and wine; and he 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, {\b Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.} Is it for the oxen that God careth,
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;\par\tab And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.I will take no bullock out of thy house,\par\tab Nor he-goats out of thy folds.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.
There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.\par
And he said unto them, {\cf6 What man shall there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this 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 of more value than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.}
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth?\par\tab {\i Or} canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
They give drink to every beast of the field;\par\tab The wild asses quench their thirst.
Who covereth the heavens with clouds,\par\tab Who prepareth rain for the earth,\par\tab Who maketh 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.
Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness,\par\tab Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
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; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead beast shall be his.
I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;\par\tab For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap; which have no store-chamber nor barn; and God feedeth them: of how much more value are ye than the birds!
And God blessed them: and God said unto 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 moveth upon the earth.
And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.\par
How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God!\par\tab And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,\par\tab And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
but they that wait for Jehovah 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.\par
Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house,\par\tab And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,\par\tab Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts,\par\tab 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 assuaged;
And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me:and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
Who covereth the heavens with clouds,\par\tab Who prepareth rain for the earth,\par\tab Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.He giveth to the beast his food,\par\tab {\i And} to the young ravens which cry.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.
There are four things which are little upon the earth,\par\tab But they are exceeding wise:The ants are a people not strong,\par\tab Yet they provide their food in the summer;
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female:of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
that thou shalt set apart unto Jehovah all that openeth the womb, and every firstling which thou hast that cometh of a beast; the males shall be Jehovah's.
but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.
And she brought forth her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.\par
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?\par\tab And the son of man, that thou visitest him?For thou hast made him but little lower than God,\par\tab And crownest him with glory and honor.Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;\par\tab Thou hast put all things under his feet:All sheep and oxen,\par\tab Yea, and the beasts of the field,The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,\par\tab Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Hast thou given the horse {\i his} might?\par\tab Hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?Hast thou made him to leap as a locust?\par\tab The glory of his snorting is terrible.He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength:\par\tab He goeth out to meet the armed men.He mocketh at fear, and is not dismayed;\par\tab Neither turneth he back from the sword.The quiver rattleth against him,\par\tab The flashing spear and the javelin.He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage;\par\tab Neither believeth he that it is the voice of the trumpet.As oft as the trumpet {\i soundeth} he saith, Aha!\par\tab And he smelleth the battle afar off,\par\tab The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.\par
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt 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,\par\tab Yea, four which are stately in going:The lion, which is mightiest among beasts,\par\tab And turneth not away for any;The greyhound; the he-goat also;\par\tab And the king against whom there is no rising up.\par
Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?
And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.
For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
He that killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, {\i as he that offereth} swine's blood; he that burneth frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations:
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;\par\tab And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle,\par\tab And herb for the service of man;\par\tab That he may bring forth food out of the earth,And wine that maketh glad the heart of man,\par\tab {\i And} oil to make his face to shine,\par\tab And bread that strengtheneth 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;\par\tab {\i But} are they the pinions and plumage of love?For she leaveth her eggs on the earth,\par\tab And warmeth them in the dust,And forgetteth that the foot may crush them,\par\tab Or that the wild beast may trample them.She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers:\par\tab Though her labor be in vain, {\i she is} without fear;Because God hath deprived her of wisdom,\par\tab Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.What time she lifteth up herself on high,\par\tab She scorneth the horse and his rider.
By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation;\par\tab They sing among the branches.
As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.\par