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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 man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Then 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 birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth,
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you shall help him to lift it up.
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O Lord.
but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates;
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.”
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.Without having any chief, officer or ruler,she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.
And I will make for you a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety.
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
“If you chance to come upon a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;you shall let the mother go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.
“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed.
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
for your cattle also and for the beasts that are in your land all its yield shall be for food.
Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?
but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild beasts may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a people holy to the Lord 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 air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms, he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
And whether the mother is a cow or a ewe, you shall not kill both her and her young in one day.
And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a sabbath day?”
The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,
and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; then he 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, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from 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. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.
There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and gather her young in her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, each one with her mate.
He said to them, “What man of you, if he has one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.”
He covers the heavens with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow upon the hills.
The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
“When a man leaves a pit open, 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 make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.
I will feed them with good pasture, and upon the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than 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 sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall upon the open field, and not be gathered and buried. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the air I have given you as food.
They shall not hurt or 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 precious is thy steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings.
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy 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 made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;
And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your ass these three times? Behold, I have come forth to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me;and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have slain you and let her live.”
And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, to keep them alive.
You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and withhold your help from them; you shall help him to lift them up again.
You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
He covers the heavens with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow upon the hills.He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens which cry.
“Say to the people of Israel, These are the living things which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.“All winged insects that go upon all fours are an abomination to you.Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth.Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.But all other winged insects which have four feet are an abomination to you.“And by these you shall become unclean; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.Every animal which parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you; every one who touches them shall be unclean.And all that go on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.“And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, the great lizard according to its kind,Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
“You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and withhold your help from them; you shall take them back to your brother.
Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate;the waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth, and every man;everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.
you shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstlings of your cattle that are males shall be the Lord's.
but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.
And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
“Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with strength? Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth,Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin.With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff.
Three things are stately in their tread; four are stately in their stride:I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.the lion, which is mightiest among beasts and does not turn back before any;the strutting cock, the he-goat, and a king striding before his people.
Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
“For the life of every creature is the blood of it; therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.
“He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like him who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a cereal offering, like him who offers swine's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like him who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;
Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth,and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man's heart.
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the pinions and plumage of love? For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them.She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear;because God has made her forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
Like cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. So thou didst lead thy people, to make for thyself a glorious name.