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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 person cares ⌞even⌟ about the life of his animals, but the compassion of wicked people is ⌞nothing but⌟ cruelty.
Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”
You make grass grow for cattle and make vegetables for humans to use in order to get food from the ground.
“Look at the birds. They don’t plant, harvest, or gather the harvest into barns. Yet, your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?
Whenever you see that the donkey of someone who hates you has collapsed under its load, don’t leave it there. Be sure to help him with his animal.
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, your judgments like the deep ocean. You save people and animals, O Lord.
The seventh day is the day of rest—a holy day dedicated to the Lord your God. You, your sons, your daughters, your male and female slaves, your cattle, and the foreigners living in your city must never do any work ⌞on that day⌟.
Wolves and lambs will feed together, lions will eat straw like oxen, and dust will be food for snakes. “They will not hurt or destroy anyone anywhere on my holy mountain,” says the Lord.
Consider the ant, you lazy bum. Watch its ways, and become wise.Although it has no overseer, officer, or ruler,in summertime it stores its food supply. At harvest time it gathers its food.
What a large number of things you have made, O Lord! You made them all by wisdom. The earth is filled with your creatures.
“On that day I will make an arrangement with the wild animals, the birds, and the animals that crawl on the ground. I will destroy all the bows, swords, and weapons of war, so people can live safely.
Shouldn’t I feel sorry for this important city, Nineveh? It has more than 120,000 people in it as well as many animals. These people couldn’t tell their right hand from their left.”
Whenever you’re traveling and find a nest containing chicks or eggs, this is what you must do. If the mother bird is sitting on the nest, never take her with the chicks.You may take the chicks, but make sure you let the mother go. Then things will go well for you, and you will live for a long time.
“For six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you must not work. Then your ox and donkey can rest. The slaves born in your household and foreigners will also be refreshed.
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to farm the land and to take care of it.
Wolves will live with lambs. Leopards will lie down with goats. Calves, young lions, and year-old lambs will be together, and little children will lead them.
your animals and the wild animals in your land. Everything the land produces will be yours to eat.
“Who provides food for the crow when its young ones cry to God and wander around in need of food?
but in the seventh year you must leave the land unplowed and unused. In that way the poor among your people will have food to eat, and wild animals may eat what the poor people leave. You must do the same with your vineyards and olive groves.
Never eat any creature that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigners who live in your cities, and they may eat it. You may also sell it to foreigners who are visiting. But you are people who are holy to the Lord your God. Never cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Every creature in the forest, ⌞even⌟ the cattle on a thousand hills, is mine.I know every bird in the mountains. Everything that moves in the fields is mine.
Like a shepherd he takes care of his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms. He carries them in his arms. He gently helps the sheep and their lambs.
You have made him rule what your hands created. You have put everything under his control:all the sheep and cattle, the wild animals,the birds, the fish, whatever swims in the currents of the seas.
Jesus asked them, “If your son or your ox falls into a well on a day of rest—a holy day, wouldn’t you pull him out immediately?”
Whoever loves discipline loves to learn, but whoever hates correction is a dumb animal.
Wild animals, jackals, and ostriches will honor me. I will provide water in the desert. I will make rivers on the dry land for my chosen people to drink.
went to him, and cleaned and bandaged his wounds. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Moses’ Teachings say, “Never muzzle an ox when it is threshing grain.” God’s concern isn’t for oxen.
I am not criticizing you for your sacrifices or burnt offerings, which are always in front of me.⌞But⌟ I will not accept ⌞another⌟ young bull from your household or a single male goat from your pens.
Humans and animals have the same destiny. One dies just like the other. All of them have the same breath ⌞of life⌟. Humans have no advantage over animals. All ⌞of life⌟ is pointless.
Owls will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young in the shadow of ⌞their wings⌟. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate.
Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you has a sheep. If it falls into a pit on a day of rest—a holy day, wouldn’t you take hold of it and lift it out?Certainly, a human is more valuable than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the day of rest—a holy day.”
“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch the does when they are in labor?
He covers the sky with clouds. He provides rain for the ground. He makes grass grow on the mountains.
Cows and bears will eat together. Their young will lie down together. Lions will eat straw like oxen.
Lambs ⌞will provide⌟ you with clothing, and the money from the male goats will buy a field.
“Whenever someone opens up a cistern or digs a new one and doesn’t cover it and a bull or a donkey falls into it,the owner of the cistern must make up for the loss. He must pay money to the animal’s owner, and then the dead animal will be his.
I will feed them in good pasture, and they will graze on the mountains of Israel. They will rest on the good land where they graze, and they will feed on the best pastures in the mountains of Israel.
The Lord God had formed all the wild animals and all the birds out of the ground. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each creature became its name.
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, because the world and all that it contains are mine.
Consider the crows. They don’t plant or harvest. They don’t even have a storeroom or a barn. Yet, God feeds them. You are worth much more than birds.
God blessed them and said, “Be fertile, increase in number, fill the earth, and be its master. Rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”
I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish from the Nile. You will fall in an open field. No one will pick you up or bury you. I will feed you to wild animals and birds.
They will not hurt or destroy anyone anywhere on my holy mountain. The world will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord like water covering the sea.
Your mercy is so precious, O God, that Adam’s descendants take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
who teaches us more than he teaches the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’
Yet, the strength of those who wait with hope in the Lord will be renewed. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and won’t become weary. They will walk and won’t grow tired.
Even sparrows find a home, and swallows find a nest for themselves. There they hatch their young near your altars, O Lord of Armies, my king and my God.
God remembered Noah and all the wild and domestic animals with him in the ship. So God made a wind blow over the earth, and the water started to go down.
The Messenger of the Lord asked him, “Why have you hit your donkey three times like this? I’ve come here to stop you because the trip you’re taking is evil.The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away from me, I would certainly have killed you by now but spared the donkey.”
Bring two of every living creature into the ship in order to keep them alive with you. They must be male and female.The sons of God saw that the daughters of other humans were beautiful. So they married any woman they chose.Two of every type of bird, every type of domestic animal, and every type of creature that crawls on the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
If you see another Israelite’s donkey or ox lying on the road, don’t pretend that you don’t see it. Make sure you help him get it back on its feet.
You must do the same with your cattle and your sheep. They will stay with their mothers seven days, but on the eighth day you must give them to me.
He covers the sky with clouds. He provides rain for the ground. He makes grass grow on the mountains.He is the one who gives food to animals and to young ravens when they call out.
“Tell the Israelites: Here are the kinds of land animals you may eat:“Every swarming, winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.However, you may eat winged insects that swarm if they use their legs to hop on the ground.You may eat any kind of locust, cricket, katydid, or grasshopper.Every kind of winged insect that walks across the ground like a four-legged animal is disgusting to you.“Regarding the creatures mentioned above, this is how you would become unclean: Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.Whoever carries any part of their dead bodies must wash his clothes. He will be unclean until evening.All animals whose hoofs are not completely divided or that don’t chew their cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them is unclean.All four-legged animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.Those who carry the dead body of any of these animals must wash their clothes and will be unclean until evening. These animals are unclean for you.“The following swarming creatures that move on the ground are unclean for you—moles, mice, and all types of lizards:all animals that have completely divided hoofs and that also chew their cud.
If you see another Israelite’s ox or sheep out where it doesn’t belong, don’t pretend that you don’t see it. Make sure you take it back.
Four things on earth are small, yet they are very wise:Ants are not a strong species, yet they store their food in summer.
Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal (a male and a female of each) and one pair of every kind of unclean animal (a male and a female).It rose 23 feet above the mountaintops.Every creature that crawls on the earth died, including birds, domestic and wild animals, and everything that swarms over the earth, along with every human.Everything on dry land (every living, breathing creature) died.Every living creature on the face of the earth was wiped out. Humans, domestic animals, crawling creatures, and birds were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ship were left.The floodwaters were on the earth for 150 days.Also, take seven pairs of every kind of bird (a male and a female of each) to preserve animal life all over the earth after the flood.
sacrifice every firstborn male offspring to the Lord. The firstborn male offspring of each of your animals belongs to the Lord.
The seventh day is the day of rest—a holy day dedicated to the Lord your God. You, your sons, your daughters, your male and female slaves, your oxen, your donkeys—all of your animals—even the foreigners living in your city must never do any work ⌞on that day⌟. In this way your male and female slaves can rest as you do.
She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger because there wasn’t any room for them in the inn.
what is a mortal that you remember him or the Son of Man that you take care of him?You have made him a little lower than yourself. You have crowned him with glory and honor.You have made him rule what your hands created. You have put everything under his control:all the sheep and cattle, the wild animals,the birds, the fish, whatever swims in the currents of the seas.
Everything that lives and moves will be your food. I gave you green plants as food; I now give you everything else.“But you are not to eat meat with blood in it. (Blood is life.)
He gave plenty to drink to those who were thirsty. He filled those who were hungry with good food.
“Can you give strength to a horse or dress its neck with a flowing mane?Can you count the months they are pregnant or know the time when they’ll give birth?Can you make it leap like a locust, when its snorting causes terror?It paws in strength and finds joy in its power. It charges into battle.It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and doesn’t back away from swords.A quiver of arrows rattles on it along with the flashing spear and javelin.Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and doesn’t trust the sound of the ram’s horn.As often as the horn sounds, the horse says, ‘Aha!’ and it smells the battle far away— the thundering ⌞orders⌟ of the captains and the battle cries.
“Obey my laws. Never crossbreed different kinds of animals. Never plant two kinds of crops in your field. Never wear clothes made from two kinds of material.
There are three things that walk with dignity, even four that march with dignity:I haven’t learned wisdom. I don’t have knowledge of the Holy One. a lion, mightiest among animals, which turns away from nothing,a strutting rooster, a male goat, a king at the head of his army.
Who knows whether a human spirit goes upward or whether an animal spirit goes downward to the earth?
Then God said, “Let the earth produce every type of living creature: every type of domestic animal, crawling animal, and wild animal.” And so it was.
This is because the life of any creature is in its blood. So I have said to the people of Israel: Never eat any blood, because the life of any creature is in its blood. Whoever eats blood must be excluded ⌞from the people⌟.
Whoever kills a bull is like someone who kills a person. Whoever sacrifices a lamb is like someone who breaks a dog’s neck. Whoever offers a grain sacrifice is like someone who ⌞offers⌟ pig’s blood. Whoever burns incense is like someone who worships an idol. People have certainly chosen their own ways, and their souls delight in detestable things.
You make grass grow for cattle and make vegetables for humans to use in order to get food from the ground.You make wine to cheer human hearts, olive oil to make faces shine, and bread to strengthen human hearts.
I will create a new heaven and a new earth. Past things will not be remembered. They will not come to mind.
“Does the ostrich flap its wings in joy, or do its wings lack feathers? It lays its eggs on the ground and warms them in the dust.It forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal may trample them.It acts harshly toward its young as if they weren’t its own. It is not afraid that its work is for nothingbecause God has deprived it of wisdom and did not give it any understanding.It laughs at the horse and its rider when it gets up to flee.
Like animals going down into a valley, they were given rest by the Lord’s Spirit. In this way you guided your people to make an honored name for yourself.