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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.
Then God said, “And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small.”
You make grass grow for the cattle and plants for us to use, so that we can grow our crops
Look at the birds: they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren't you worth much more than birds?
If his donkey has fallen under its load, help him get the donkey to its feet again; don't just walk off.
Your righteousness is towering like the mountains; your justice is like the depths of the sea. People and animals are in your care.
but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work—neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country.
Wolves and lambs will eat together; lions will eat straw, as cattle do, and snakes will no longer be dangerous. On Zion, my sacred hill, there will be nothing harmful or evil.”
Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.They have no leader, chief, or ruler,but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.
Lord, you have made so many things! How wisely you made them all! The earth is filled with your creatures.
At that time I will make a covenant with all the wild animals and birds, so that they will not harm my people. I will also remove all weapons of war from the land, all swords and bows, and will let my people live in peace and safety.
How much more, then, should I have pity on Nineveh, that great city. After all, it has more than 120,000 innocent children in it, as well as many animals!”
“If you happen to find a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground with the mother bird sitting either on the eggs or with her young, you are not to take the mother bird.You may take the young birds, but you must let the mother bird go, so that you will live a long and prosperous life.
“Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.
Wolves and sheep will live together in peace, and leopards will lie down with young goats. Calves and lion cubs will feed together, and little children will take care of them.
your domestic animals, and the wild animals in your fields. Everything that it produces may be eaten.
Who is it that feeds the ravens when they wander about hungry, when their young cry to me for food?
But in the seventh year let it rest, and do not harvest anything that grows on it. The poor may eat what grows there, and the wild animals can have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees.
“Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to the Lord your God; you are his people. “Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.
all the animals in the forest are mine and the cattle on thousands of hills.All the wild birds are mine and all living things in the fields.
He will take care of his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs together and carry them in his arms; he will gently lead their mothers.
You appointed them rulers over everything you made; you placed them over all creation:sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.
Do not sacrifice a cow and its calf or a sheep and its lamb or a goat and its kid on the same day.
Then he said to them, “If any one of you had a child or an ox that happened to fall in a well on a Sabbath, would you not pull it out at once on the Sabbath itself?”
Any who love knowledge want to be told when they are wrong. It is stupid to hate being corrected.
Even the wild animals will honor me; jackals and ostriches will praise me when I make rivers flow in the desert to give water to my chosen people.
He went over to him, poured oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them; then he put the man on his own animal and took him to an inn, where he took care of him.
We read in the Law of Moses, “Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain.” Now, is God concerned about oxen?
I do not reprimand you because of your sacrifices and the burnt offerings you always bring me.And yet I do not need bulls from your farms or goats from your flocks;
After all, the same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. One dies just like the other. They are the same kind of creature. A human being is no better off than an animal, because life has no meaning for either.
Owls will build their nests, lay eggs, hatch their young, and care for them there. Vultures will gather there, one after another.
Jesus answered, “What if one of you has a sheep and it falls into a deep hole on the Sabbath? Will you not take hold of it and lift it out?And a human being is worth much more than a sheep! So then, our Law does allow us to help someone on the Sabbath.”
He spreads clouds over the sky; he provides rain for the earth and makes grass grow on the hills.
Cows and bears will eat together, and their calves and cubs will lie down in peace. Lions will eat straw as cattle do.
You can make clothes from the wool of your sheep and buy land with the money you get from selling some of your goats.
“If someone takes the cover off a pit or if he digs one and does not cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,he must pay for the animal. He is to pay the money to the owner and may keep the dead animal.
I will let them graze in safety in the mountain meadows and the valleys and in all the green pastures of the land of Israel.
So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names.
“If I were hungry, I would not ask you for food, for the world and everything in it is mine.
“Speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves. Protect the rights of all who are helpless.
Look at the crows: they don't plant seeds or gather a harvest; they don't have storage rooms or barns; God feeds them! You are worth so much more than birds!
blessed them, and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.
I will throw you and all those fish into the desert. Your body will fall on the ground and be left unburied. I will give it to the birds and animals for food.
On Zion, God's sacred hill, there will be nothing harmful or evil. The land will be as full of knowledge of the Lord as the seas are full of water.
How precious, O God, is your constant love! We find protection under the shadow of your wings.
But those who trust in the Lord for help will find their strength renewed. They will rise on wings like eagles; they will run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak.
Even the sparrows have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home; they keep their young near your altars, Lord Almighty, my king and my God.
God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down.
The angel demanded, “Why have you beaten your donkey three times like this? I have come to bar your way, because you should not be making this journey.But your donkey saw me and turned aside three times. If it hadn't, I would have killed you and spared the donkey.”
Take into the boat with you a male and a female of every kind of animal and of every kind of bird, in order to keep them alive.some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.
“If an Israelite's donkey or cow has fallen down, don't ignore it; help him get the animal to its feet again.
Give me the first-born of your cattle and your sheep. Let the first-born male stay with its mother for seven days, and on the eighth day offer it to me.
He spreads clouds over the sky; he provides rain for the earth and makes grass grow on the hills.He gives animals their food and feeds the young ravens when they call.
for the people of Israel. You may eat any land animalAll winged insects are unclean,except those that hop.You may eat locusts, crickets, or grasshoppers.But all other small things that have wings and also crawl must be considered unclean.If you touch the dead bodies of the following animals, you will be unclean until evening: all animals with hoofs, unless their hoofs are divided and they chew the cud, and all four-footed animals with paws. If you carry their dead bodies, you must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening.Moles, rats, mice, and lizards must be considered unclean.that has divided hoofs and that also chews the cud,
“If you see an Israelite's cow or sheep running loose, do not ignore it; take it back.
There are four animals in the world that are small, but very, very clever:Ants: they are weak, but they store up their food in the summer.
The brook will supply you with water to drink, and I have commanded ravens to bring you food there.”
Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.it went on rising until it was about twenty-five feet above the tops of the mountains.Every living being on the earth died—every bird, every animal, and every person.Everything on earth that breathed died.The Lord destroyed all living beings on the earth—human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat.The water did not start going down for a hundred and fifty days.Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.
you must offer every first-born male to the Lord. Every first-born male of your animals belongs to the Lord,
but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work—neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country. Your slaves must rest just as you do.
She gave birth to her first son, wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger—there was no room for them to stay in the inn.
what are human beings, that you think of them; mere mortals, that you care for them?Yet you made them inferior only to yourself; you crowned them with glory and honor.You appointed them rulers over everything you made; you placed them over all creation:sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.
Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food.The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.
Was it you, Job, who made horses so strong and gave them their flowing manes?Do you know how long they carry their young? Do you know the time for their birth?Did you make them leap like locusts and frighten people with their snorting?They eagerly paw the ground in the valley; they rush into battle with all their strength.They do not know the meaning of fear, and no sword can turn them back.The weapons which their riders carry rattle and flash in the sun.Trembling with excitement, the horses race ahead; when the trumpet blows, they can't stand still.At each blast of the trumpet they snort; they can smell a battle before they get near, and they hear the officers shouting commands.
“Obey my commands. Do not crossbreed domestic animals. Do not plant two kinds of seed in the same field. Do not wear clothes made of two kinds of material.
There are four things that are impressive to watch as they walk:I have never learned any wisdom, and I know nothing at all about God.lions, strongest of all animals and afraid of none;goats, strutting roosters, and kings in front of their people.
How can anyone be sure that the human spirit goes upward while an animal's spirit goes down into the ground?
Then God commanded, “Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small”—and it was done.
The life of every living thing is in the blood, and that is why the Lord has told the people of Israel that they shall not eat any meat with blood still in it and that anyone who does so will no longer be considered one of his people.
“The people do as they please. It's all the same to them whether they kill a bull as a sacrifice or sacrifice a human being; whether they sacrifice a lamb or break a dog's neck; whether they present a grain offering or offer pigs' blood; whether they offer incense or pray to an idol. They take pleasure in disgusting ways of worship.
You make grass grow for the cattle and plants for us to use, so that we can grow our cropsand produce wine to make us happy, olive oil to make us cheerful, and bread to give us strength.
The Lord says, “I am making a new earth and new heavens. The events of the past will be completely forgotten.
How fast the wings of an ostrich beat! But no ostrich can fly like a stork. The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground for the heat in the soil to warm them.She is unaware that a foot may crush them or a wild animal break them.She acts as if the eggs were not hers, and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.It was I who made her foolish and did not give her wisdom.But when she begins to run, she can laugh at any horse and rider.
As cattle are led into a fertile valley, so the Lord gave his people rest. He led his people and brought honor to his name.