Genesis Cross References - BBE

¹ At the first God made the heaven and the earth. ² And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters. ³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. ⁴ And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark, ⁵ Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ⁶ And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters. ⁷ And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so. ⁸ And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. ⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so. ¹⁰ And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good. ¹¹ And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so. ¹² And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. ¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years: ¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars. ¹⁷ And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth; ¹⁸ To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. ²⁰ And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven. ²¹ And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good. ²² And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth. ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. ²⁴ And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good. ²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule 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 living thing which goes flat on the earth. ²⁷ And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them. ²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth. ²⁹ And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food: ³⁰ And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so. ³¹ And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

¹⁸ And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

²⁶ For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

⁶ You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

¹³ By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

⁴ Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

³ When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

⁶ By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

⁹ For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

¹¹ Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it. ¹² You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

² Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

⁵ For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

²⁵ In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁴ O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

³⁰ If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.

¹⁵ May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

² Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

³ May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion,

⁵ To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

⁴ Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens. ⁵ Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.

¹⁹ The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.

²² The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past. ²³ From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was. ²⁴ When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water. ²⁵ Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth: ²⁶ When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world. ²⁷ When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep: ²⁸ When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed: ²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth: ³⁰ Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

⁴ The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.

¹ Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

¹⁶ O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

²⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

²⁸ Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.

⁵ God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

²⁴ The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?

¹⁸ For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.

¹³ And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

¹⁶ And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.

¹⁷ For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.

¹² He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

¹⁷ Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:

¹⁵ He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:

¹ The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

²⁵ At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

¹⁹ For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again.

¹ From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God. ² This Word was from the first in relation with God. ³ All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

²⁴ And hearing it, they all, with one mind, made prayer to God and said, O Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them:

¹⁵ Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

²⁴ The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

¹⁹ Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them. ²⁰ For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

³⁶ For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.

⁶ There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.

⁹ And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

¹⁶ For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him; ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

² But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;

¹⁰ You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

⁴ For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

³ By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.

⁵ But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

¹ That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:

¹¹ It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.

⁶ And took his oath by him who is living for ever and ever, who made the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there would be no more waiting:

⁷ Saying with a loud voice, Have fear of God and give him glory; because the hour of his judging is come; and give worship to him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.

⁶ And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.

¹³ I am the First and the Last, the start and the end.

⁷ By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

¹⁴ See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

¹² In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales? ¹³ By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher? ¹⁴ Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?

²³ Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

¹⁰ Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

³⁰ See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

¹⁹ Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

¹¹ Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

² You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

²⁷ The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.

⁵ Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.

⁷ I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

¹⁹ The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.

³ And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean.

⁵ And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

⁹ The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.

¹⁹ And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

⁴³ Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

⁶ Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

¹⁶ Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

⁵ This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

⁸ Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

¹⁰ And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

¹² And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁸ To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

³¹ And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

¹³ Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

⁷ Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

⁸ And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

¹⁹ And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

²³ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

²² While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

² Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

¹⁶ The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

²⁰ When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

²⁰ The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,

¹³ Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

¹³ But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.

⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; ¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

⁷ By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing. ⁸ By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

¹¹ The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

¹⁸ Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

²² Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops, ²³ Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting? ²⁴ Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth? ²⁵ By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder; ²⁶ Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

⁵ To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁶ To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁴ Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.

³ If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.

¹⁰ But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

¹² He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out. ¹³ At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

¹¹ And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

⁸ By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

⁸ Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; ⁹ When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, ¹⁰ Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; ¹¹ And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

¹⁰ You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

²⁸ When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed: ²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

²⁷ And the men were full of wonder, saying, What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea do his orders?

⁵ Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

² Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

¹⁰ By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it. ² For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.

⁷ He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

⁵ The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.

³ The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

⁵ He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever; ⁶ Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains; ⁷ At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear; ⁸ The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them. ⁹ You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

⁷ All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

²² Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.

⁹ And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.

⁴ And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

⁴ He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

³¹ Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works:

²⁹ And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

⁵ In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

⁹ And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁶ And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

⁵ As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

³ He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

⁹ You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. ¹⁰ You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. ¹¹ The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, ¹² Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. ¹³ The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart. ¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting; ¹⁷ Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

⁸ By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

⁸ For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

¹⁰ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

³⁰ But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?

¹⁶ By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit. ¹⁸ It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire. ²⁰ So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.

²⁸ The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

⁴³ For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit. ⁴⁴ For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

⁷ For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

¹² Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?

¹⁰ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food; ¹¹ So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.

¹¹ For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

²⁴ And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field: ²⁵ But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away. ²⁶ But when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time.

⁴⁴ For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

¹⁰ And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

⁷ Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

¹³ I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

¹⁹ And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

⁹ Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

³ Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

⁵ See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; ¹³ So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? ¹⁴ It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

³¹ Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose? ³² Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

³ When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places; ⁴ What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands. ² Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge. ³ There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound. ⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun, ⁵ Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. ⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

¹⁶ The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun. ¹⁷ By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

³ Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:

¹⁹ He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down. ²⁰ When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

⁹¹ They are ruled this day by your decisions; for all things are your servants.

⁷ To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁸ The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁹ The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

³ Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.

⁶ He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.

² This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.

³⁵ These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

²⁵ The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,

⁷ And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. ⁸ All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

¹ This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open.

⁶ And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark:

¹⁰ The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:

³⁰ And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. ³¹ The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

¹⁵ The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.

⁸ Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

⁹ And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

² Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.

² But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red. ³ And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.

²⁹ But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

²⁴ But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,

²⁵ And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves; ²⁶ Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.

⁴⁵ The light of the sun went out, and the curtain in the Temple was parted in two.

¹⁹ And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke: ²⁰ The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:

¹² And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;

¹² And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.

² And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.

¹² It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon. ¹³ And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar? So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day. ¹⁴ And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

²⁶ If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

⁷ When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

²³ Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

¹¹ At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.

⁸ And the fourth let what was in his vessel come out on the sun; and power was given to it that men might be burned with fire. ⁹ And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.

²³ And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

¹ To the chief music-maker on the Gittith. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!

⁴⁷ For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

⁷ And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

²² And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

¹⁹ And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

¹⁷ Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

³³ He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.

²⁴ O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made. ²⁵ There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

¹⁰ Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:

²¹ Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

²⁵ And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

²⁰ Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

¹⁴ And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

¹⁹ And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

⁷ And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

⁷ And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

³ The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

⁵ The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

²⁴ O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made. ²⁵ There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered. ²⁶ There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

² Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.

¹⁷ And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

¹⁰ And at the Lord's order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land.

⁴⁰ For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

¹ And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

²⁷ And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

³⁰ For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

¹¹ And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

⁹ And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.

¹⁵ See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

¹² And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

³¹ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

³⁸ He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

¹³ Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields. ¹⁴ Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

³⁹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, ⁴⁰ When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

¹ Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

⁵ Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

⁹ Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

¹⁹ Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

⁹ I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks; ¹⁰ For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹⁸ The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

²³ Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

¹⁹ And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name. ²⁰ And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.

⁸ Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it. ⁹ Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

⁵ I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure.

²² And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

² And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands. ³ Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things. ⁴ But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

⁶ Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

⁷ Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

²³ For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

¹⁰ But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

⁴ What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account? ⁵ For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour. ⁶ You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet; ⁷ All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field; ⁸ The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

³ Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.

²⁰ When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places. ²¹ The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God. ²² The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest. ²³ Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening. ²⁴ O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

² Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

²⁹ This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.

⁸ And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

⁸ But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use.

¹⁷ But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

²⁰ For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

²⁶ And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

²⁸ For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring. ²⁹ If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

⁷ For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

¹⁸ But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

²⁴ And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

¹⁵ Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;

¹⁰ And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

⁶ But a certain writer has given his witness, saying, What is man, that you keep him in mind? what is the son of man, that you take him into account? ⁷ You made him a little lower than the angels; you gave him a crown of glory and honour, and made him ruler over all the works of your hands: ⁸ You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now. ⁹ But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.

⁷ For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;

⁹ With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.

⁷ And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

¹⁸ And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

²¹ And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: ²² And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man. ²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man. ²⁴ For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh. ²⁵ And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God; ² Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

¹⁴ I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

⁷ Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.

¹⁵ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

⁴ And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

⁶ But from the first, male and female made he them.

⁷ For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. ⁸ For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man. ⁹ And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.

¹⁰ For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

²⁶ The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,

¹⁶ And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

²⁰ As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

¹⁷ That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them; ¹⁸ And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

⁶⁰ And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.

³ Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham; ⁴ I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

²⁴ That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

⁵ Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.

²⁵ Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

¹⁰ And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.

⁵ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for the blessing of God was on him.

³⁴ Let the heavens and the earth give praise to him, the seas, and everything moving in them.

¹ A Song of the going up. Of Solomon. If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing. ² It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep. ³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward. ⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young. ⁵ Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table. ⁴ See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

³ Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

³ Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

³¹ For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

²⁷ All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time. ²⁸ They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

⁵ He has given food to his worshippers; he will keep his agreement in mind for ever.

¹⁶ The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

¹⁵ The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time. ¹⁶ By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

⁷ Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;

⁹ He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.

¹⁶ He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

⁸ For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

¹¹ Give us this day bread for our needs.

²⁵ So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing? ²⁶ See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

¹⁷ But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

²⁴ The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands; ²⁵ And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

²⁸ For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

¹⁷ Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

³⁹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, ⁴⁰ When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood? ⁴¹ Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

⁴ Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

⁸ He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

³⁰ His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

²⁰ He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

² And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands. ² Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

³⁸ Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

⁴ Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise: