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 is concerned for the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works.

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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.

He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,

Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are ye not much more excellent than they?

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:

Who giveth to the cattle their food, to the young ravens which cry.

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, beware of leaving it to him: thou shalt certainly loosen it with him.

Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy bondman, nor thy handmaid, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,provideth her bread in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria? and one of them is not forgotten before God.

How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

And I will make a covenant for them in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will break bow and sword and battle out of the land; and I will make them to lie down safely.

and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree, or upon the ground, with young or with eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:thou shalt in any case let the dam go, and thou mayest take the young to thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

— Six days thou shalt do thy work, but 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 Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.

and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food.

Who provideth for the raven his food, when his young ones cry unto ·God and they wander for lack of meat?

Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl;

but in the seventh thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat of it; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thine olive-tree.

Ye shall eat of no carcase; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it, or sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck.

Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, whatever passeth through the paths of the seas.

A cow, or sheep — it and its young shall ye not slaughter in one day.

And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?

Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

The beast of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I will give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the waste, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

and came up to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to the inn and took care of him.

For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. Is God occupied about the oxen,

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds:

For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity.

There shall the arrow-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there also shall the vultures be gathered one with another.

But he said to them, What man shall there be of you who has one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it and raise it up?How much better then is a man than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do well on the sabbath.

These all look unto thee, that thou mayest give their food in its season:

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?

They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.

Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;

And the cow and the she-bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field;

Dost thou hunt the prey for the lioness, and dost thou satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

— And if a man open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall into it,the owner of the pit shall make it good, shall give money to the owner of them; and the dead ox shall be his.

I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold, and in a fat pasture they shall feed upon the mountains of Israel.

The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in its season.

And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.

Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are ye than the birds?

Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

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 fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.

and I will cast thee into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together nor gathered: I will give thee for meat to the beasts of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens.

They shall not hurt nor 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 thy loving-kindness, O God So the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?

but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.

Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she layeth her young, thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God

And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that 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, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, it was I who came forth to withstand thee, for the way thou walkest in is for ruin before me.And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times; had she not turned from me, I had now certainly slain thee, and saved 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 the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose. Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep them alive.

Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case help him to lift them up.

Likewise shalt thou do with thy calf, with thy sheep: seven days shall it be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;Who giveth to the cattle their food, to the young ravens which cry.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which ye shall eat of all the beasts which are on the earth.Every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four shall be an abomination unto you.Yet these shall ye eat of every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four: those which have legs above their feet with which to leap upon the earth.These shall ye eat of them: the arbeh after its kind, and the solam after its kind, and the hargol after its kind, and the hargab after its kind.But every winged crawling thing that hath four feet shall be an abomination unto you.And by these ye shall make yourselves unclean; whoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.And whoever carrieth ought of their carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even.Every beast that hath cloven hoofs, but not feet quite split open, nor cheweth the cud, shall be unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.And whatever goeth on its paws, among all manner of beasts that go upon all four, those are unclean unto you: whoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.And he that carrieth their carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even: they shall be unclean unto you.And these shall be unclean unto you among the crawling things which crawl on the earth: the mole, and the field-mouse, and the lizard, after its kind;Whatever hath cloven hoofs, and feet quite split open, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts — that shall ye 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 back unto thy brother.

There are four things little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the torrent; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two, a male and its female.Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

that thou shalt offer unto Jehovah all that breaketh open the womb, and every firstling that cometh of cattle which is thine: the males shall be Jehovah's.

but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy bondman, nor thy handmaid, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy sojourner that is within thy gates; that thy bondman and thy handmaid may rest as well as thou.

and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, whatever passeth through the paths of the seas.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good.

Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet:At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

My statutes shall ye observe. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with another sort; thou shalt not sow thy field with seed of two sorts; and a garment woven of two materials shall not come upon thee.

There are three things which have a stately step, and four are comely in going:I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.The lion, mighty among beasts, which turneth not away for any;a horse girt in the loins; or the he-goat; and a king, against whom none can rise up.

Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?

And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so.

for as to the life of all flesh, its blood is the life in it; and I have said unto the children of Israel, Of the blood of no manner of flesh shall ye eat, for the life of all flesh is its blood: whoever eateth it shall be cut off.

He that slaughtereth an ox, smiteth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, it is as swine's blood; he that presenteth a memorial of incense, is as he that blesseth an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations,

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;

Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man; making his face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's heart.

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

The wing of the ostrich beats joyously — But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

The birds of heaven dwell by them; they give forth their voice from among the branches.

As cattle go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah gave them rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

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