Bible on Nature

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.

They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.

And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

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

Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.