Bible on Nature

For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.