Bible on Nature

The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,

And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.

For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.