Category
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 man has regard for the life of his animal, But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the labor of man, So that he may bring forth food from the earth,
Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like a great deep. O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain,” says the Lord.
Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise,Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler,Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest.
O Lord, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions.
In that day I will also make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The birds of the sky And the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land, And will make them lie down in safety.
Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”
“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
“Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.
Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them.
Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.
Who prepares for the raven its nourishment When its young cry to God And wander about without food?
but on the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat. You are to do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
“You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.
Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes.
You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field,The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
But, whether it is an ox or a sheep, you shall not kill both it and its young in one day.
And He said to them, “Which one of you will have a son or an ox fall into a well, and will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”
The beasts of the field will glorify Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I have given waters in the wilderness And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My chosen people.
and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put 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, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds.
For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.
The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there, And it will hatch and gather them under its protection. Yes, the hawks will be gathered there, Every one with its kind.
And He said to them, “What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
“Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer?
Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who provides rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
“If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.
I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!
God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers; You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea.
How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
Yet those who wait for the Lord Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.
The bird also has found a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, My King and my God.
But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.
The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way was contrary to me.But the donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, I would surely have killed you just now, and let her live.”
And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up.
You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.
Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who provides rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens which cry.
“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth.‘All the winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth.These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, and the devastating locust in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds.But all other winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you.‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,and whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.Concerning all the animals which divide the hoof but do not make a split hoof, or which do not chew cud, they are unclean to you: whoever touches them becomes unclean.Also whatever walks on its paws, among all the creatures that walk on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,and the one who picks up their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; they are unclean to you.‘Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds,Whatever divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
“You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.
Four things are small on the earth, But they are exceedingly wise:The ants are not a strong people, But they prepare their food in the summer;
It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there.”
You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
you shall devote to the Lord the first offspring of every womb, and the first offspring of every beast that you own; the males belong to the Lord.
but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field,The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.
“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?Can you count the months they fulfill, Or do you know the time they give birth?Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; He goes out to meet the weapons.He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; And he does not turn back from the sword.The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and javelin.With shaking and rage he races over the ground, And he does not stand still at the voice of the trumpet.As often as the trumpet sounds he says, ‘Aha!’ And he scents the battle from afar, And the thunder of the captains and the war cry.
‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together.
There are three things which are stately in their march, Even four which are stately when they walk:Neither have I learned wisdom, Nor do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.The lion which is mighty among beasts And does not retreat before any,The strutting rooster, the male goat also, And a king when his army is with him.
Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.
“For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’
“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood; He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,
“But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the labor of man, So that he may bring forth food from the earth,And wine which makes man’s heart glad, So that he may make his face glisten with oil, And food which sustains man’s heart.
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.
“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously With the pinion and plumage of love, For she abandons her eggs to the earth And warms them in the dust,And she forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild beast may trample them.She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers; Though her labor be in vain, she is unconcerned;Because God has made her forget wisdom, And has not given her a share of understanding.When she lifts herself on high, She laughs at the horse and his rider.
Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; They lift up their voices among the branches.
As the cattle which go down into the valley, The Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. So You led Your people, To make for Yourself a glorious name.