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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 one knows the life of his animal, but the mercies of the wicked ones are cruel.
And God said, let Us make man in Our image, according to 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 creeping on the earth.
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for the service of man, to bring food out of the earth.
But now please ask the animals, and they will teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and they will declare to you;or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will recount to you;who among all these does not know that Jehovah’s hand has done this,in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh, even of man?
Observe the birds of the heaven, that they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor do they gather into granaries, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Do you not rather excel them?
When you see the ass of your enemy crouching under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving the matter to him; loosing you shall loose it from him.
Your righteousness is like the hills of God; Your judgments are a great deep; O Jehovah, You preserve animal and man.
and the seventh day is a sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your male slave and your slave-girl, and your livestock, and your stranger who is in your gates.
Behold! I, even I, am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,and with every living soul which is with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every animal of the earth with you, from all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the earth.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed as one; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And dust is the food of the snake. They shall not do evil nor destroy in all My holy mountain, says Jehovah.
Go to the ant, lazy man; see her ways and be wise;who, having no leader, overseer or ruler,provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? And not one of them has been forgotten before God.
O Jehovah, how many are Your works! You have made all of them in wisdom; the earth is full of Your possessions.
And in that day I will cut a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creepers of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword, and the battle weapons out of the earth, and I will make them to lie down to be secure.
and should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city in which there is in it more than twelve ten thousands of mankind who do not know between the right and the left hand, and many cattle?
If a bird’s nest happens to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, with young ones, or eggs; and the mother is sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.But in every case you shall let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days.
You shall do your work six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your slave-girl and your sojourner may be refreshed.
And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden, to work it and to keep it.
And the wolf shall abide with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little boy shall lead them.
and to your livestock, and to the animal in your land, all its produce shall be for food.
Who provides its food for the raven, when its young ones cry to God and wander about without food?
And the seventh year you shall let it rest and let it alone, and the needy one of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field shall eat. So you shall do to your vineyard, to your oliveyard.
You shall not eat of anything that died of itself. You may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a foreign one. For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
for every beast of the forest is Mine; the cattle on a thousand hills;I know all the birds of the mountains; and all moving in My fields are Mine;
He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather lambs with His arm; and bear them in His bosom; those with young He will lead;
You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all under his feet:all flocks and oxen, and also the animals of the field,the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, all that pass through the sea.
And answering to them He said, Whose ass or ox of yours shall fall into a pit, and he will not at once pull it up on the sabbath day?
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he hating chastisement is one of stupidity.
Will the wild ox consent to be your servant, or spend the night by your feed-trough?Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?Will you trust him because his strength is great; or will you leave your labor to him?Or will you have faith in him, that he will return your seed, and gather it to your threshing-floor?
The beast of the field shall honor Me, jackals and daughters of ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My elect.
And coming near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and putting him on his beast, he brought him to an inn and cared for him.
For it has been written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain.” Deut. 25:4 Not that it matters to God for the oxen, is it?
Not for your sacrifices do I reprove you; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me;I will take no bull out of your house, no he-goats out of your folds,
For the event of the sons of men, and the event of beasts, even one event is to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, one breath is to all; so that there is to the man no advantage over the beast; for all is vanity.
The snake shall nest there, and shall lay, and hatch, and shall gather in her shadow. Also shall gather there birds of prey, each with its mate.
But He said to them, What man of you will be who will have one sheep, and if this one fall into a pit on the sabbaths, will he not lay hold of it and raise it up?How much more, then, does a man excel a sheep! So that it is lawful to do well on the sabbath.
Do you know the time of the bearing of the goats of the rock? Do you observe the travailing of deer?
who covers the heavens with clouds; who prepares rain for the earth; who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
The cow and the bear shall feed, their young shall lie together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it,the owner of the pit shall pay; he shall give silver to its owner, and the dead shall be his.
I, even I, will feed them in a good pasture, and on the high mountains of Israel their fold shall be. They shall lie there in a good fold, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on all the mountains of Israel.
And Jehovah God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the heavens out of the ground. And He brought each one to the man, to see what he would call it. And all that the man might call it, each living soul, that was its name.
if I were hungry, I would not speak to you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.
Consider the ravens, for they do not sow, nor do they reap; to which there is no storeroom nor storehouse, and God feeds them. How much rather you differ from the birds!
And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over every living creaturemoving on the earth.
And I will leave you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You shall fall on the face of the field, you shall not be removed or gathered. I have given you to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens for food.
They shall not do evil, and not destroy in all My holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
How precious is Your mercy, O God! And the sons of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
teaching us more than the animals of the earth, and making us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew strength; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!
Even the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even on Your altars, O Jehovah of Hosts, my King and my God.
And God remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Why have you struck your ass these three times? Behold, I have come out for an adversary because your way is rushing headlong toward Me.And the ass saw Me and turned aside before Me these three times. If she had not turned aside surely now I would have killed you and saved her alive.
And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind, of every living thing of all flesh, to keep alive with you; they shall be male and female;from the birds according to its kind, and from the cattle according to its kind, from every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two from each shall come in to you to keep alive.
You shall not see your brother’s ass or his ox fallen down in the way, and hide yourself from them. Lifting you shall lift it up.
So you shall do to your oxen, to your sheep: it shall be seven days with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.
who covers the heavens with clouds; who prepares rain for the earth; who makes grass to grow on the mountains.He gives the animals their food, to the young ravens that cry.
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things which you shall eat out of all the animals which are on the earth.Any that divides the hoof and is cleaving of the cleft of the hooves, bringing up the cud, among the living things, you may eat it.
You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep driven away, and hide yourself from them. Turning you shall turn them back to your brother.
Four things are little on the earth, but they are the wise ones of those made wise:The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in summer;
And it shall be, you shall drink of the torrent; and I shall command the ravens to feed you there.
You shall take to yourself from every clean animal by sevens, male and female, and from the animal that is not clean by two, male and female.And take of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep alive seed on the face of the earth.
you shall set apart to Jehovah every one opening the womb, and every firstling, the offspring of animals which are yours; the males are Jehovah’s.
and the seventh day shall be a sabbath to Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work, you and not your son, and not your daughter, and not your male slave, and not your female slave, and not your ox, and not your ass, and not any of your livestock, and not your stranger that is within your gates; so that your male slave and your female slave may rest like yourself.
And she bore her son, the First-born. And she wrapped Him and laid Him in the manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You care for him?For You have made him lack a little from God; and have crowned him with glory and honor.You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all under his feet:all flocks and oxen, and also the animals of the field,the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, all that pass through the sea.
Every creeping thing which is alive shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green plant.But you shall not eat flesh in its life, its blood.
Have you given the horse its strength: have you clothed its neck with a mane?Can you make him leap like a locust? The majesty of his snorting is terrifying.He paws in the valley and he rejoices in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons;he mocks at fear and is not terrified; and he does not turn back from the sword.The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.He swallows the ground with quivering and trembling, and he does not stand still for the sound of the rams’ horn.When the rams’ horn sounds, he says, Aha! And he smells the battle from a distance, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
You shall keep my statutes; you shall not cause your livestock to breed with different kinds; you shall not sow two kinds in your field; and you shall not allow a garment mixed of linen and wool to come upon you.
There are three things that do good in a march; yea, four that go well in walking:a lion is a mighty one among beasts, and he does not turn away from facing all;one girded in the loins, and a hegoat, and a king; there is no rising up with him.
Who knows the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living soul according to its kind: cattle, and creepers, and the living things of the earth, according to their kind. And it was so.
For it is the life of all flesh; its blood is for its life. And I say to the sons of Israel, You shall not eat blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is in the blood; anyone eating it is cut off.
He who slaughters an ox is as if he struck a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog’s neck; he who offers a present is as if it were swine’s blood; he making mention of incense is as if he blessed iniquity. Yea, they have chosen their way, and their soul delights in their detestable idols.
But now please ask the animals, and they will teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and they will declare to you;
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for the service of man, to bring food out of the earth.And wine cheers the heart of man; oil makes his face shine, and bread sustains the heart of man.
For, behold, I create new heavens and new earth. And the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not go up on the heart.
The wing of the ostriches flap joyously, though not like the stork’s pinions or feathers.For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them warm on the dust;and forgets that a foot may crush it, or the beast of the field may trample it;she treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;because God has made her forget wisdom; and He has not given to her a share in understanding.At the time she lifts up on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
As the cattle go down into the valley, so the Spirit of Jehovah caused him to rest; so You led Your people, to make a name of glory for Yourself.