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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 for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?
Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds,
If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, but be sure to help him with it.
Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.
A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake’s food will be dirt. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain,” says the Lord.
Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,yet it prepares its food in the summer; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.
How many living things you have made, O Lord! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.
“At that time I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creatures that crawl on the ground. I will abolish the warrior’s bow and sword – that is, every weapon of warfare – from the land, and I will allow them to live securely.”
Should I not be even more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals!”
If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, you must not take the mother from the young.You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and any hired help may refresh themselves.
The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.
A wolf will reside with a lamb, and a leopard will lie down with a young goat; an ox and a young lion will graze together, as a small child leads them along.
your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land – all its produce will be for you to eat.
Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.
You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine.
Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.
you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.
Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”
The wild animals of the desert honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,
He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
For it is written in the law of Moses, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?
I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.
For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.
Owls will make nests and lay eggs there; they will hatch them and protect them. Yes, hawks will gather there, each with its mate.
He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?
They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.
A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.
“If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his.
In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.
Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.
The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me.
Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your waterways; you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.
They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain. For there will be universal submission to the Lord’s sovereignty, just as the waters completely cover the sea.
who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
But those who wait for the Lord’s help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.
Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow builds a nest, where she can protect her young near your altars, O Lord who rules over all, my king and my God.
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”
You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.
When you see your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again.
You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.
He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.
“Tell the Israelites: ‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.“‘Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.“‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.“‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof (the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.
There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise:ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;
You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.
then you must give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have – the males will be the Lord’s.
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.
And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.
You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.
“Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.At the sound of the trumpet, it says, ‘Aha!’ And from a distance it catches the scent of battle, the thunderous shouting of commanders, and the battle cries.
You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed, you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear a garment made of two different kinds of fabric.
There are three things that are magnificent in their step, four things that move about magnificently:I have not learned wisdom, nor do I have knowledge of the Holy One.a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.
Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?
God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.
for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood – all who eat it will be cut off.
The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog’s neck; the one who presents an offering includes pig’s blood with it; the one who offers incense also praises an idol. They have decided to behave this way; they enjoy these disgusting practices.
“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.
He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.
For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore.
“The wings of the ostrich flap with joy, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.But as soon as she springs up, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
Like an animal that goes down into a valley to graze, so the Spirit of the Lord granted them rest. In this way you guided your people, gaining for yourself an honored reputation.