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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 is merciful even unto his beast, but the piety of the wicked is 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 beasts and over all the earth and over every serpent that moves upon the earth.
He causes the hay to grow for the cattle and grass for the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth
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 ye not much better than they?
¶ Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, and put thy heart into thy herds.
If thou see the ass of him that hates thee lying under his burden, will thou forbear to help him? Thou shalt surely help him to raise it up.
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; thy judgments are a great deep; O Lord, thou dost preserve man and beast.
but the seventh day shall be the sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manslave, nor thy maidslave, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;
The wolf and the lamb shall be fed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not afflict nor do evil in all my holy mountain, said the Lord.
¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise,Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler,provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom thou hast made them all; the earth is full of thy riches.
And in that time I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heaven and with the serpents of the earth; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle of the earth and will cause them to sleep safely.
And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and many animals?
If a bird’s nest is encountered before thee in the way in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the mother with the young.But thou shalt let the mother go and take the young for thyself, that it may be well with thee and that thou may 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 rest, and the son of thy 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 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 child shall shepherd them.
and for thy beast and for the animals that are in thy land shall all the fruit thereof be food.
Who provided food for the raven; when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food?
but the seventh year thou shalt leave it free and release it, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard and with thy oliveyard.
Ye shall not eat of any thing that died of itself; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates that he may eat it, or thou may sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not cook a kid in his mother’s milk.
For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle upon a thousand hills.I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are with me.
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.
Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;The birds of the heavens, 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?
The beast of the field shall honour 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, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God take care for oxen?
I will not reprove thee regarding thy sacrifices; thy burnt offerings are continually before me.I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; and they all have one breath; so that a man has no more breath than a beast: for all is vanity.
There shall the great owl make his nest and conserve his eggs and hatch his young and gather them under his wings; there shall the vultures also be gathered, each one with his mate.
And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?Therefore, how much more is a man worth than a sheep? So that it is lawful to do good on the sabbath days.
¶ Knowest thou the time when the mountain goats bring forth? Hast thou observed when the hinds calve?
Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares the rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
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 someone shall open a pit or if someone shall dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or an ass falls in it,the owner of the pit shall make it good and give money unto their owner, and the dead beast shall be his.
I will feed them in good pastures and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be; there they shall sleep in a good fold, and in fat pastures they shall be fed upon 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 unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living soul, that was its name.
Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every beast that moves upon the earth.
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers; thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food 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 thy mercy, O God! therefore the sons of Adam cover themselves in the shadow of thy wings.
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
but those that wait for the Lord shall have new strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Even the sparrow has found a house and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young upon thine altars, O Lord of the hosts, my King and my God.
¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters ceased;
And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out as thine adversary, because thy way is perverse before me.The ass saw me and turned from me these three times; and if she had not turned from me, I also now would slay thee and leave 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.that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose.Of fowls after their kind and of beasts after their kind, of every animal of the earth 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 his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.
Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares the rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.He who gives the beast his food and to the sons of the ravens which cry unto him.
Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, These are the animals which ye shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth.¶ Every flying insect that creeps, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.Yet these may ye eat of every flying insect that goes upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap with them upon the earth;these of them ye may eat: the locust according to his species and the bald locust according to his species and the beetle according to his species and the grasshopper according to his species.But all other flying insects, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.And for these ye shall be unclean: whoever touches their carcase shall be unclean until the evening.And whoever bears any part of their carcase shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.The carcasses of every animal which divides the hoof and is not clovenfooted, nor chews the cud, are unclean unto you; everyone that touches them shall be unclean.And of all the animals that go on all four, any that walk upon their paws are unclean unto you; whoever touches their carcase shall be unclean until the evening.And he that bears their carcase shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean unto you.These also shall be unclean unto you among the animals that creep upon the earth: the weasel and the mouse and the frog according to his speciesWhatever divides the hoof and is clovenfooted and chews the cud, among the animals, that shall you eat.
¶ Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide thyself from them; thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
¶ There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are wiser than the wise men:The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
Of every clean animal thou shalt take to thee seven pairs, the male and his female; but of animals that are not clean, two, the male and his female.Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that was in the dry land died.And every substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle and the animals and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah remained alive and those that were with him in the ark.And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.Of fowls also of the heavens by seven pairs, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
that thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that opens the womb and in the same manner every firstborn that opens the wombs of thy animals; the males shall be the Lord’s.
but the seventh day is the sabbath unto the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy manslave nor thy maidslave nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any animal of thine nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, that thy manslave and thy maidslave may rest as well as thou.
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 thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou dost visit him?For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and beauty.Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green grass I have given you all things.But flesh with the soul (or life) thereof, which is its blood, ye shall not eat.
¶ Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?Canst thou make him leap as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is formidable.He paws at the earth and rejoices in his strength; he goes forth to meet the armed men.He mocks fear and is not afraid; neither does he turn his face from the sword.The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage; the sound of the shofar does not trouble him;for the blasts of the shofar fill him with courage; he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the princes and the sound of the battle-cry.
¶ Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy animal join with a diverse kind for mixtures; thou shalt not sow thy field with mixture, neither shalt thou wear garments of a mixture of different things.
¶ There are three things which have a magnificent walk; yea, the fourth is stately in going:I neither learned wisdom nor have the knowledge of the holy.The lion which is strongest among beasts and does not turn away for any;the greyhound who is girded up of loins; a he goat also, and the king, against whom no one rises up.
Who knows that the spirit of the sons of men goes upward and that the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth?
¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living soul after its nature, beasts and serpents and animals of the earth after its nature; and it was so.
For the soul of all flesh, its life, is in its blood; therefore, I have said unto the sons of Israel, Ye shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the soul (or the life) of all flesh is its blood; 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 iniquity. They have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they shall show thee;
He causes the hay to grow for the cattle and grass for the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earthand wine that makes glad the heart of man, making his face to shine with oil and bread which sustains man’s heart.
¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
¶ Didst thou give beautiful wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?Who leaves her eggs in the earth and warms them in dustand 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 hers, not fearing that her labour is in vain,because God caused her to forget wisdom and did not give her understanding.In her time she lifts up herself on high; she scorns the horse and his rider.
Next to them the fowls of the heavens have their habitation; they sing among the leaves.
The Spirit of the Lord pastored them as a beast that goes down into the valley; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.