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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.
The righteous care about their livestock’s needs, but even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.
The LORD is good to everyone and everything; God’s compassion extends to all his handiwork!”
Then God said, “Let us make humanity in our image to resemble us so that they may take charge of the fish of the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling things on earth.”
You make grass grow for cattle; you make plants for human farming in order to get food from the ground,
In whose grasp is the life of every thing, the breath of every person?But ask Behemoth, and he will teach you, the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;or talk to earth, and it will teach you; the fish of the sea will recount it for you.Among all these, who hasn’t known that the LORD’s hand did this?
Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are?
When you see a donkey that belongs to someone who hates you and it’s lying down under its load and you are inclined not to help set it free, you must help set it free.
Your righteousness is like the strongest mountains; your justice is like the deepest sea. LORD, you save both humans and animals.
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Do not do any work on it—not you, your sons or daughters, your male or female servants, your animals, or the immigrant who is living with you.
and with every living being with you—with the birds, with the large animals, and with all the animals of the earth, leaving the ark with you.“I am now setting up my covenant with you, with your descendants,
Wolf and lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the snake—its food will be dust. They won’t hurt or destroy at any place on my holy mountain, says the LORD.
Go to the ant, you lazy person; observe its ways and grow wise.The ant has no commander, officer, or ruler.Even so, it gets its food in summer; gathers its provisions at harvest.
LORD, you have done so many things! You made them all so wisely! The earth is full of your creations!
On that day, I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the creeping creatures of the fertile ground. I will do away with the bow, the sword, and war from the land; I will make you lie down in safety.
Yet for my part, can’t I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than one hundred twenty thousand people who can’t tell their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”
If you come across a bird’s nest along your way, whether in a tree or on the ground, with baby birds or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the baby birds or eggs, do not remove the mother from her young.You must let the mother go, though you may take the young for yourself so that things go well for you and so you can prolong your life.
Do your work in six days. But on the seventh day you should rest so that your ox and donkey may rest, and even the child of your female slave and the immigrant may be refreshed.
The LORD God took the human and settled him in the garden of Eden to farm it and to take care of it.
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; the calf and the young lion will feed together, and a little child will lead them.
as well as for your livestock and for the wild animals in your land. All of the land’s produce can be eaten.
Do the same, you animals—wild or tame— you creatures that creep along and you birds that fly!
But in the seventh year you should leave it alone and undisturbed so that the poor among your people may eat. What they leave behind, the wild animals may eat. You should do the same with your vineyard and your olive trees.
You must not eat any decayed animal flesh because you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You can give decayed animal flesh to the immigrants who live in your cities, and they can eat it; or you can sell it to foreigners. Don’t cook a lamb in its own mother’s milk.
because every forest animal already belongs to me, as do the cattle on a thousand hills.I know every mountain bird; even the insects in the fields are mine.
Like a shepherd, God will tend the flock; he will gather lambs in his arms and lift them onto his lap. He will gently guide the nursing ewes.
You’ve let them rule over your handiwork, putting everything under their feet—all sheep and all cattle, the wild animals too,the birds in the sky, the fish of the ocean, everything that travels the pathways of the sea.
He said to them, “Suppose your child or ox fell into a ditch on the Sabbath day. Wouldn’t you immediately pull it out?”
Can you bind it with a rope to a plowed row; will it plow the valley behind you?Will you trust it because its strength is great so that you can leave your work to it?Can you rely on it to bring back your grain to gather into your threshing floor?Will the wild ox agree to be your slave, or will it spend the night in your crib?
The beasts of the field, the jackals and ostriches, will honor me, because I have put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness to give water to my people, my chosen ones,
The Samaritan went to him and bandaged his wounds, tending them with oil and wine. Then he placed the wounded man on his own donkey, took him to an inn, and took care of him.
In Moses’ Law it’s written: “You will not muzzle the ox when it is threshing”. Is God worried about oxen,
I’m not punishing you for your sacrifices or for your entirely burned offerings, which are always before me.I won’t accept bulls from your house or goats from your corrals
because human beings and animals share the same fate. One dies just like the other—both have the same life-breath. Humans are no better off than animals because everything is pointless.
There the snake will nest and lay eggs and brood and hatch in its shadow. There too vultures will gather, each with its mate.
Jesus replied, “Who among you has a sheep that falls into a pit on the Sabbath and will not take hold of it and pull it out?How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So the Law allows a person to do what is good on the Sabbath.”
God covers the skies with clouds; God makes rain for the earth; God makes the mountains sprout green grass.
The cow and the bear will graze. Their young will lie down together, and a lion will eat straw like an ox.
then the lambs will provide your clothes, and the goats will be the price of your fields.
When someone leaves a pit open or digs a pit and doesn’t cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into the pit,the owner of the pit must make good on the loss. He should pay money to the ox’s owner, but he may keep the dead animal.
I will feed them in good pasture, and their sheepfold will be there, on Israel’s lofty highlands. On Israel’s highlands, they will lie down in a secure fold and feed on green pastures.
So the LORD God formed from the fertile land all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky and brought them to the human to see what he would name them. The human gave each living being its name.
Even if I were hungry, I wouldn’t tell you because the whole world and everything in it already belong to me.
Consider the ravens: they neither plant nor harvest, they have no silo or barn, yet God feeds them. You are worth so much more than birds!
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and master it. Take charge of the fish of the sea, the birds in the sky, and everything crawling on the ground.”
I will fling you out into the desert, and also all the fish from the Nile’s canals. You will fall on the open ground, and won’t be gathered or retrieved. I’ve given you to the beasts of the earth and the birds in the sky for food.
They won’t harm or destroy anywhere on my holy mountain. The earth will surely be filled with the knowledge of the LORD, just as the water covers the sea.
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?”
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength; they will fly up on wings like eagles; they will run and not be tired; they will walk and not be weary.
Yes, the sparrow too has found a home there; the swallow has found herself a nest where she can lay her young beside your altars, LORD of heavenly forces, my king, my God!
God remembered Noah, all those alive, and all the animals with him in the ark. God sent a wind over the earth so that the waters receded.
The LORD’s messenger said to him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I’ve come out here as an adversary, because you took the road recklessly in front of me.The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it hadn’t turned away from me, I would just now have killed you and let it live.”
From all living things—from all creatures—you are to bring a pair, male and female, into the ark with you to keep them alive.From each kind of bird, from each kind of livestock, and from each kind of everything that crawls on the ground—a pair from each will go in with you to stay alive.
Don’t just watch your fellow Israelite’s donkey or ox fall down in the road and do nothing about it. You must help your fellow Israelite get the animal up again.
Do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. They should stay with their mother for seven days. On the eighth day, you should give them to me.
God covers the skies with clouds; God makes rain for the earth; God makes the mountains sprout green grass.God gives food to the animals— even to the baby ravens when they cry out.
Say to the Israelites: These are the creatures that you are allowed to eat from the land animals:You can eat any animal that has divided hoofs, completely split, and that rechews food.
Don’t just watch your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep wandering around and do nothing about it. You must return the animal to its owner.
Four things are among the smallest on earth, but they are extremely wise:Ants as creatures aren’t strong, but they store away their food in the summer.
From every clean animal, take seven pairs, a male and his mate; and from every unclean animal, take one pair, a male and his mate;and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth.
you should set aside for the LORD whatever comes out of the womb first. All of the first males born to your animal belong to the LORD.
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Don’t do any work on it—not you, your sons or daughters, your male or female servants, your oxen or donkeys or any of your animals, or the immigrant who is living among you—so that your male and female servants can rest just like you.
She gave birth to her firstborn child, a son, wrapped him snugly, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the guestroom.
what are human beings that you think about them; what are human beings that you pay attention to them?You’ve made them only slightly less than divine, crowning them with glory and grandeur.You’ve let them rule over your handiwork, putting everything under their feet—all sheep and all cattle, the wild animals too,the birds in the sky, the fish of the ocean, everything that travels the pathways of the sea.
Everything that lives and moves will be your food. Just as I gave you the green grasses, I now give you everything.However, you must not eat meat with its life, its blood, in it.
because God satisfied the one who was parched with thirst, and he filled up the hungry with good things!
Did you give strength to the horse, clothe his neck with a mane,cause him to leap like a locust, his majestic snorting, a fright?He paws in the valley, prances proudly, charges at battle weapons,laughs at fear, unafraid. He doesn’t turn away from the sword;a quiver of arrows flies by him, flashing spear and dagger.Excitedly, trembling, he swallows the ground; can’t stand still at a trumpet’s blast.At a trumpet’s sound, he says, “Aha!” smells the battle from afar, hears officers’ shouting and the battle cry.
You must keep my rules. Do not crossbreed your livestock, do not plant your field with two kinds of seed, and do not wear clothes made from two kinds of material.
There are three things that are excellent in their stride, four that are excellent as they walk:a lion, a warrior among beasts, which doesn’t back down at anything;the strut of a rooster or a male goat; and a king with his army.
Who knows if a human being’s life-breath rises upward while an animal’s life-breath descends into the earth?
God said, “Let the earth produce every kind of living thing: livestock, crawling things, and wildlife.” And that’s what happened.
Again: for every creature’s life, its blood is its life. That is why I have told the Israelites: You must not consume any creature’s blood because every creature’s life is its blood. Anyone who consumes it will be cut off.
The one who slaughters an ox kills a person; the one who sacrifices a sheep breaks a dog’s neck; the one who makes a grain offering offers swine’s blood; the one who burns incense blesses an idol. All these have chosen their own ways, and prefer their detestable things.
You make grass grow for cattle; you make plants for human farming in order to get food from the ground,and wine, which cheers people’s hearts, along with oil, which makes the face shine, and bread, which sustains the human heart.
Look! I’m creating a new heaven and a new earth: past events won’t be remembered; they won’t come to mind.
The ostrich’s wings flap joyously, but her wings and plumage are like a stork.She leaves her eggs on the earth, lets them warm in the dust,then forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal trample them.She treats her young harshly as if they were not hers, without worrying that her labor might be in vain;God didn’t endow her with sense, didn’t give her some good sense.When she flaps her wings high, she laughs at horse and rider.
Like cattle descending to the valley, the LORD’s spirit brought them to rest. In this way you led your people and made for yourself a glorious reputation.