Genesis Cross References - ISV

¹ The CreationIn the beginning, God created the universe. ² When the earth was as yet unformed and desolate, with the surface of the ocean depths shrouded in darkness, and while the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters, ³ God said, “Let there be light!” So there was light.
⁴ God saw that the light was beautiful. He separated the light from the darkness, ⁵ calling the light “day,” and the darkness “night.” The twilight and the dawn were day one.
⁶ Then God said, “Let there be a canopy between bodies of water, separating bodies of water from bodies of water!” ⁷ So God made a canopy that separated the water beneath the canopy from the water above it. And that is what happened: ⁸ God called the canopy “sky.” The twilight and the dawn were the second day.
⁹ Then God said, “Let the water beneath the sky come together into one area, and let dry ground appear!” And that is what happened: ¹⁰ God called the dry ground “land,” and he called the water that had come together “oceans.” And God saw how good it was.
¹¹ Then God said, “Let vegetation sprout all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed!” And that is what happened: ¹² Vegetation sprouted all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ The twilight and the dawn were the third day.
¹⁴ Then God said, “Let there be lights across the sky to distinguish day from night, to act as signs for seasons, days, and years, ¹⁵ to serve as lights in the sky, and to shine on the earth!” And that is what happened: ¹⁶ God fashioned two great lights—the larger light to shine during the day and the smaller light to shine during the night—as well as stars. ¹⁷ God placed them in space to shine on the earth, ¹⁸ to differentiate between day and night, and to distinguish light from darkness. And God saw how good it was. ¹⁹ The twilight and the dawn were the fourth day.
²⁰ Then God said, “Let the oceans swarm with living creatures, and let flying creatures soar above the earth throughout the sky!” ²¹ So God created every kind of magnificent marine creature, every kind of living marine crawler with which the waters swarmed, and every kind of flying creature. And God saw how good it was. ²² God blessed them by saying, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the oceans. Let the birds multiply throughout the earth!” ²³ The twilight and the dawn were the fifth day.
²⁴ Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature, each kind of livestock and crawling thing, and each kind of earth’s animals!” And that is what happened: ²⁵ God made each kind of the earth’s animals, along with every kind of livestock and crawling thing. And God saw how good it was.
²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!” ²⁷ So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female.
²⁸ God blessed the humans by saying to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!”
²⁹ God also told them, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant that grows throughout the earth, along with every tree that grows seed-bearing fruit. They will produce your food. ³⁰ I have given all green plants as food for every wild animal of the earth, every bird that flies, and to every living thing that crawls on the earth.” And that is what happened.
³¹ Now God saw all that he had made, and indeed, it was very good! The twilight and the dawn were the sixth day.

¹¹ because the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, in six days, then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.ה

¹⁸ When he finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two Tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

²⁶ For all of the gods of the other nations are mere idols, but the LORD fashioned the heavens!

⁶ “You are the LORD; you alone crafted the heavens, the highest heavens with all of their armies; the earth, and everything in it; the seas, and everything in them; you keep giving all of them life, and the army of heaven continuously worships you.

¹³ he clears the skies with his wind; his hands have pierced the fleeing serpent.

⁴ On the Natural World“Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you’re so informed!

³ When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you established—

⁶ By the word of the LORD the heavens were made; all the heavenly bodies by the breath of his mouth.

⁹ because he spoke and it came to be, because he commanded, it stood firm.

¹¹ Heaven and the earth belong to you, the world and everything it contains— you established them. ¹² The north and south—you created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.

² Before the mountains were formed or the earth and the world were brought forth, you are God from eternity to eternity.

⁵ For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

²⁵ You established the earth long ago; the heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁴ How numerous are your works, LORD! You have made them all wisely; the earth is filled with your creations.

³⁰ When you send your spirit, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the earth.

¹⁵ May you be blessed by the LORD, who made the heavens and the earth.

² My help is from the LORD, maker of heaven and earth.

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

³ May the LORD who fashions heaven and earth bless you from Zion.

⁵ to the one who by wisdom made the heavens, for his gracious love is everlasting—

⁶ maker of heaven and earth, the seas and everything in them, forever the guardian of truth,

⁴ Praise him, you heaven of heavens, and you waters above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the LORD, for he himself gave the command that they be created.

¹⁹ By wisdom the LORD laid the earth’s foundations, and by understanding he set the heavens in place.

²² The Agelessness of Wisdom“The LORD made me as he began his planning, before his ancient activity commenced. ²³ From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before there was land. ²⁴ When there were no ocean depths, I brought them to birth at a time when there were no springs. ²⁵ Before the mountains were shaped, before there were hills, I was bringing them to birth. ²⁶ Even though he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the world’s first grains of dust, ²⁷ when he crafted the heavens, I was there— when he marked out a circle on the face of the deep, ²⁸ when he made the clouds from above, when the springs of the depths were established, ²⁹ when he set a boundary for the sea so the waters would not exceed his limits, when he marked out the foundations of the earth. ³⁰ Then I was with him, his master craftsman— I was his delight daily, continuously rejoicing in his presence,

⁴ The LORD made everything answerable to him, including the wicked at the time of trouble.

¹ Remember Your Creator So remember your Creator during your youth! Otherwise, troublesome days will come and years will creep up on you when you’ll say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

¹⁶ “O LORD of the Heavenly Armies, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you alone are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made heaven and earth.

²⁶ “Lift your eyes up to heaven and see who created all these— the one who leads out their vast array of stars by number, calling them all by name— because of his great might and his powerful strength— and not one is missing.”

²⁸ Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard? The LORD is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary; and his understanding cannot be fathomed.

⁵ God Speaks about the ServantThis is what God says— the God who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its produce, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

²⁴ “This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer and the one who formed you in the womb: ‘I am the LORD, who has made everything, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth— Who was with me at that time?—

¹⁸ For this is what the LORD says, who created the heavens— he is God, and the one who formed the earth and made it, and he is the one who established it; he didn’t create it for chaos, but formed it to be inhabited— “I am the LORD and there is no other.

¹³ As a result, you have forgotten the LORD who made you, who stretched out the heavens and laid the earth’s foundations, and you live in constant fear every day because of the oppressor’s fury, since he’s ready to destroy. Now where is the oppressor’s fury?

¹⁶ I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of my hand, so that I could plant the heavens and lay the earth’s foundations, to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’

¹⁷ A New UniverseTake notice! I’m about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things won’t be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

¹² A Hymn of Praise to GodThe LORD is the one who made the world by his power, who established the earth by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

¹⁷ ‘LORD! Look, you made the heavens and the earth with your great power and your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you!

¹⁵ Praise to the God of JacobHe made the earth by his power. He established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

¹ The LORD will Deliver JerusalemA declaration: a message from the LORD to Israel. “The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who frames the spirit of man within himself, declares,

²⁵ Jesus Praises the Father and Invites the Disciples to Come to Him
At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants.

¹⁹ because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

¹ The Word and CreationIn the beginning, the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He existed in the beginning with God. ³ Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

²⁴ When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, “Master, you made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

¹⁵ “Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you’ll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

²⁴ The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn’t live in shrines made by human hands,

¹⁹ For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God himself has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible attributes—his eternal power and divine nature—have been understood and observed by what he made, so that people are without excuse.

³⁶ For all things are from him, by him, and for him. Glory belongs to him forever! Amen.

⁶ yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything came into being and for whom we live. And there is only one Lord, Jesus the Messiah, through whom everything came into being and through whom we live.

⁹ and help everyone see how this secret that has been at work was hidden for ages by God, who created all things.

¹⁶ For by him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether they are kings, lords, rulers, or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He himself existed before anything else did, and he holds all things together.

² has in these last days spoken to us by a Son whom he appointed to be the heir of everything and through whom he also made the universe.

¹⁰ And, “In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

⁴ After all, every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

³ By faith we understand that time was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are invisible.

⁵ But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God’s word out of water and with water,

¹ Jesus, the Word of LifeWhat existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life!

¹⁴ The Letter to the Church in Laodicea“To the messenger of the church in Laodicea, write:
‘The Amen, the witness who is faithful and true, the originator of God’s creation, says this:

¹¹ “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, because you created all things; they came into existence and were created because of your will.”

⁶ He swore an oath by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay.

⁷ He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the time for him to judge has arrived. Worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”

⁶ Then he told me, “It has happened! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give a drink from the spring of the water of life to the one who is thirsty.

¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

⁷ He spreads out the north over empty space, suspending the earth over nothing.

¹⁴ Indeed, these are the fringes of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we’ve heard of it! But who can comprehend the thunder of his might?”

¹² Who is Like the LORD?“Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens by the width of his hand? Who has enclosed the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl, or weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? ¹³ Who has fathomed the Spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has taught him? ¹⁴ With whom did he consult to enlighten and instruct him on the path of justice? Or who taught him knowledge and showed him the way of wisdom?

²³ A Vision of ChaosI looked at the earth, and it was formless and void, at the heavens, and there was no light there.

¹⁰ Nineveh is devastated, deserted, and desolate. Her heart melts, her knees knock. Every stomach is upset, every face grows pale.

³⁰ He scatters his lightning above it, and covers the bottom of the sea.

¹⁹ “Where is the road to where the light lives? Or where does the darkness live?

¹¹ Light shines on the righteous; gladness on the morally upright.

² you are wrapped in light like a garment, stretching out the sky like a curtain.

²⁷ The LORD is God—he will be our light! Bind the festival sacrifice with ropes to the horn at the altar.

⁵ Let them praise the name of the LORD, for he himself gave the command that they be created.

⁷ God is Sovereign“I form light and create darkness, I make goodness and create disaster. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

¹⁹ “The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon shine on you by night— for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

³ So Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do want to. Be clean!” And instantly his leprosy was made clean.

⁵ And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

⁹ This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

¹⁹ And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

⁴³ After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁶ For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus the Messiah.

⁸ For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,

¹⁴ for the light is making everything visible. That is why it says, “Wake up, sleeper! Arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.’’

¹⁶ He alone has endless life and lives in inaccessible light. No one has ever seen him, nor can anyone see him. Honor and eternal power belong to him! Amen.

⁵ Living in the LightThis is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness—none at all!

⁸ On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is truly in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.

¹⁰ God called the dry ground “land,” and he called the water that had come together “oceans.” And God saw how good it was.

¹² Vegetation sprouted all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁸ to differentiate between day and night, and to distinguish light from darkness. And God saw how good it was.

²⁵ God made each kind of the earth’s animals, along with every kind of livestock and crawling thing. And God saw how good it was.

³¹ Now God saw all that he had made, and indeed, it was very good! The twilight and the dawn were the sixth day.

¹³ I concluded that wisdom is more useful than foolishness, just as light is more useful than darkness.

⁷ Preparing for Old AgeHow sweet is the daylight, and how pleasant it is for someone’s eyes to behold the sunshine!

⁸ God called the canopy “sky.” The twilight and the dawn were the second day.

¹³ The twilight and the dawn were the third day.

¹⁹ The twilight and the dawn were the fourth day.

²³ The twilight and the dawn were the fifth day.

²² “Never again, as long as the earth exists, will sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night ever cease.”

² Day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they reveal knowledge.

¹⁶ Yours is the day, and yours is the night; you established the moon and the sun.

²⁰ You bring darkness and it becomes night; when every beast of the forest prowls.

²⁰ “This is what the LORD says: ‘If you could break my covenant with the day and night so that day and night wouldn’t occur at the proper time,

¹³ the workmanship of each person will become evident, for the day of judgment will show what it is, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s action.

¹³ But everything that is exposed to the light becomes visible,

⁵ For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness.

¹⁴ Then God said, “Let there be lights across the sky to distinguish day from night, to act as signs for seasons, days, and years,

²⁰ Then God said, “Let the oceans swarm with living creatures, and let flying creatures soar above the earth throughout the sky!”

¹¹ On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened, ¹² and it rained throughout the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.

⁷ He spreads out the north over empty space, suspending the earth over nothing. ⁸ “He restricts the waters within clouds and the clouds don’t burst open under them.

¹¹ He also loads the clouds with moisture, scattering his lightning with the clouds.

¹⁸ Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror?

²² “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen where the hail is stored, ²³ which I’ve reserved for the tribulation to come, for the day of battle and war? ²⁴ Where is the lightning diffused or the east wind scattered around the earth? ²⁵ “Who cuts canals for storm floods, and paths for the lightning and thunder, ²⁶ to bring rain upon a land without inhabitants, a desert in which no human beings live,

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
God’s Revelation in the Heavens The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands.

⁵ to the one who by wisdom made the heavens, for his gracious love is everlasting— ⁶ to the one who spread out the earth over the waters, for his gracious love is everlasting—

⁴ Praise him, you heaven of heavens, and you waters above the heavens.

¹ A Psalm of Praise Hallelujah! Praise God in his Holy Place. Praise him in his great expanse.

³ If the clouds are full of rain, they will pour out on the earth; if a tree falls toward the south or the north, wherever it falls, there it will lay.

¹⁰ The LORD is the true God; he’s the living God and the everlasting king. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

¹² A Hymn of Praise to GodThe LORD is the one who made the world by his power, who established the earth by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. ¹³ When his voice sounds there is thunder from the waters of heaven, and he makes clouds rise up from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings wind out of his storehouses.

⁹ Then God said, “Let the water beneath the sky come together into one area, and let dry ground appear!” And that is what happened:

¹¹ Then God said, “Let vegetation sprout all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed!” And that is what happened:

¹⁵ to serve as lights in the sky, and to shine on the earth!” And that is what happened:

²⁴ Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature, each kind of livestock and crawling thing, and each kind of earth’s animals!” And that is what happened:

⁸ “He restricts the waters within clouds and the clouds don’t burst open under them.

⁸ “Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb, ⁹ when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket, ¹⁰ when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it; ¹¹ and said, ‘You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.’?

¹⁰ He causes springs to gush forth into rivers that flow between the mountains.

²⁸ when he made the clouds from above, when the springs of the depths were established, ²⁹ when he set a boundary for the sea so the waters would not exceed his limits, when he marked out the foundations of the earth.

²⁷ The men were amazed. “What kind of man is this?” they asked. “Even the winds and the sea obey him!”

⁵ calling the light “day,” and the darkness “night.” The twilight and the dawn were day one.

² Creating them male and female, he blessed them and called them humans when he created them.

¹⁰ He has delimited a boundary over the surface of the oceans as a limit between light and darkness.

¹ A Davidic Psalm.
A Song for the King of Glory The earth and everything in it exists for the LORD— the world and those who live in it. ² Indeed, he founded it upon the seas, he established it upon deep waters.

⁷ He gathered the oceans into a single place; he put the deep water into storehouses.

⁵ The sea that he made belongs to him, along with the dry land that his hands formed.

³ He lays the beams of his roof loft on the water above, making clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

⁵ He established the earth on its foundations, so that it never falters. ⁶ You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains. ⁷ They flee at your rebuke; they rush away at the sound of your thunders. ⁸ Mountains rise up and valleys sink to the place you have ordained for them. ⁹ You have set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

⁷ All the rivers flow toward the sea, but the sea is never full; then rivers return to the headwaters where they began.

²² ‘You don’t fear me, do you?’ declares the LORD. ‘You don’t tremble before me, do you? I’m the one who put the sand as a boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot cross. Though the waves toss, they cannot prevail against it, though they roar, they cannot cross it.’

⁹ “I’m a Hebrew,” he replied, “and I’m afraid of the LORD God of heaven, who made the sea—along with the dry land!”

⁴ God saw that the light was beautiful. He separated the light from the darkness,

⁴ Flawless is the work of the Rock, because all his ways are just. A faithful God—never unjust— righteous and upright is he.

³¹ May the glory of the LORD last forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works!

²⁹ God also told them, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant that grows throughout the earth, along with every tree that grows seed-bearing fruit. They will produce your food.

⁵ no shrubs had yet grown in the meadows of the earth and no vegetation had sprouted, because the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there were no human beings to work the ground.

⁹ The LORD God caused every tree that is both beautiful and suitable for food to spring up out of the ground. The tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁶ The LORD God commanded the man: “You may freely eat from every tree of the garden,

⁵ “While the ground produces food, underneath it is torn up and burning hot,

³ He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither. He will prosper in everything he does.

⁹ You take care of the earth, you water it, and you enrich it greatly with the river of God that overflows with water. You provide grain for them, for you have ordained it this way. ¹⁰ You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed. ¹¹ You crown the year with your goodness; your footsteps drop prosperity behind them. ¹² The wilderness pastures drip with dew, and the hills wrap themselves with joy. ¹³ The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout for joy; yes, they burst out in song!

¹⁴ He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land, ¹⁵ like wine that makes the heart of people happy, oil that makes the face glow, and food that sustains people. ¹⁶ The loftiest trees are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted, ¹⁷ the birds build their nests there, and the heron builds its nest among the evergreen.

⁸ He shields the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth and making grass grow on the hills.

⁸ He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by a stream. He won’t fear when the heat comes, and his leaves will be green. In a year of drought he won’t be concerned, nor will he stop producing fruit.”

¹⁰ The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree that isn’t producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

³⁰ Now if that is the way God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and thrown into an oven tomorrow, won’t he clothe you much better—you who have little faith?

¹⁶ You will know them by their fruit. Grapes aren’t gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they? ¹⁷ In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot produce good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire. ²⁰ So by their fruit you will know them.”

²⁸ the ground produces grain by itself—first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

⁴³ A Tree is Known by Its Fruit
“A good tree doesn’t produce rotten fruit, and a rotten tree doesn’t produce good fruit, ⁴⁴ because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

⁷ For when the ground soaks up rain that often falls on it and continues producing vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated, it receives a blessing from God.

¹² My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives, nor a grapevine figs, can it? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

¹⁰ “For just as the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, yielding seed for the sower and bread for eating, ¹¹ so will my message be that goes out of my mouth— it won’t return to me empty. Instead, it will accomplish what I desire, and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

¹¹ For just as the soil brings forth its shoots, and as a garden makes what is sown within it spring up, so the LORD God will make righteousness and praise spring up before all the nations for Zion’s sake.”

²⁴ The Parable about the Weeds among the WheatHe presented another parable to them: “The kingdom from heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. ²⁵ While people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. ²⁶ When the crop came up and bore grain, the weeds appeared, too.

⁴⁴ because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

¹⁰ Now he who supplies seed to the farmer and bread to eat will also supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest that results from your righteousness.

⁷ Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants:

¹³ I’ve set my rainbow in the sky to symbolize the covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁹ Do not gaze toward the heavens and observe the sun, the moon, the stars—the entire array of the sky—with the intent to worship and serve what the LORD your God gave every nation.

⁹ Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark; let it hope for light but let there be none; let it not see the breaking rays of the dawn.

³ Is there any limit to his armies? On whom does his light not shine?

⁵ Behold, even the moon isn’t bright, and the stars aren’t pure in his eyes.

¹² “Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives, ¹³ where it seizes the edge of the earth and shakes the wicked out of it? ¹⁴ Like clay is molded by a signet ring, the earth’s hills and valleys then stand out like the colors of a garment.

³¹ On the Heavens“Can you bind the chains of Pleiades or loosen the cords of Orion? ³² Can you bring out constellations in their season? Can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

³ When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you established— ⁴ what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him?

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
God’s Revelation in the Heavens The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands. ² Day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they reveal knowledge. ³ There is no speech nor are there words— their voice is not heard— ⁴ yet their message goes out into all the world, and their words to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent for the sun in the heavens, ⁵ which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, or like a champion who rejoices at the beginning of a race. ⁶ Its circuit is from one end of the sky to the other, and nothing is hidden from its heat.

¹⁶ Yours is the day, and yours is the night; you established the moon and the sun. ¹⁷ You set all the boundaries of the earth; you made summer and winter.

³ Blow the ram’s horn when there is a New Moon, when there is a full moon, on our festival day,

¹⁹ He made the moon to mark time; the sun knows its setting time. ²⁰ You bring darkness and it becomes night; when every beast of the forest prowls.

⁹¹ To this day they stand by means of your rulings, for all things serve you.

⁷ to the one who made the great lights, for his gracious love is everlasting— ⁸ the sun to illumine the day, for his gracious love is everlasting— ⁹ and the moon and stars to illumine the night, for his gracious love is everlasting—

³ Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars.

⁶ He set them in place to last forever and ever; he gave the command and will not rescind it.

² This is what the LORD says: “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified of them.

³⁵ This is what the LORD says, who gives the sun for light by day, the laws that govern the moon and stars for light by night, and who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name:

²⁵ This is what the LORD says: ‘If I had not established my covenant for day and night and the laws that govern the heavens and earth,

⁷ When I extinguish your lights, I’ll cover the heavens and darken their stars. I’ll cover the sun with a cloud and the moon won’t reflect its light. ⁸ I’ll darken the bright lights in the sky above you and bring darkness to your territory,’ declares the Lord GOD.

¹ Regulations for the Inner Court“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The inner, east-facing courtyard is to remain shut during the six working days of the week, but on the Sabbath day it is to be opened, as well as on the day of the New Moon.

⁶ Furthermore, each New Moon there is to be a young bull presented without defect, six male lambs, and a ram without defect.

¹⁰ Great is the Day of the LORD“The land quivers in their presence; even the heavens shake. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will stop shining.

³⁰ I will display warnings in the heavens, and on the earth blood, fire, and columns of smoke. ³¹ The sun will be given over to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and terrifying Day of the LORD.

¹⁵ The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will stop shining.

⁸ Seek the one who fashions the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into morning, who darkens day into night, who calls out to the waters of the sea, pouring them out onto the surface of the earth— the LORD is his name.

⁹ It will come about at that time,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will cause the sun to set at noon and the earth to darken in the daylight.

² and asked, “Where is the one who was born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”

² He replied to them, “You say, ‘Red sky at night, what a delight! ³ Red sky in the morning, cloudy and storming.’
You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, yet you can’t interpret the signs of the times?

²⁹ The Coming of the Son of Man
“Immediately after the troubles of those days, ‘The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.’

²⁴ The Coming of the Son of Man
“But after the suffering of those days, ‘The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

²⁵ The Coming of the Son of Man
“There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and there will be distress on earth among the nations that are confused by the roaring of the sea and its waves. ²⁶ People will faint from fear and apprehension because of the things that are to come on the inhabited world, because the powers of heaven will be shaken.

⁴⁵ because the sun had stopped shining, and the curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two.

¹⁹ I will display wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and clouds of smoke. ²⁰ The sun will become dark, and the moon turn to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.

¹² The Vision of the Sixth Seal OpenedThen I saw the lamb open the sixth seal. There was a powerful earthquake. The sun turned as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon turned as red as blood.

¹² When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, one-third of the sun, one-third of the moon, and one-third of the stars were struck so that one-third of them turned dark. One-third of the day was kept from having light, as was the night.

² It opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke came out of the shaft like the smoke from a large furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

¹² Later that day, Joshua spoke to the LORD while the LORD was delivering the Amorites to the Israelis. This is what he said in the presence of Israel: “Sun, be still over Gibeon Moon, stand in place in the Aijalon Valley” ¹³ So the sun remained still and the moon stood in place until the nation settled their score with their enemies.
This is recorded, is it not, in the book of Jashar? The sun stood in place in the middle of the sky and seemed not to be in a hurry to set for nearly an entire day.
¹⁴ There has never been a day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD was fighting on behalf of Israel.

²⁶ if I look at the sun when it shines or the moon as it rises in steady splendor,

⁷ while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully?

⁶ Its circuit is from one end of the sky to the other, and nothing is hidden from its heat.

¹⁰ For the stars of the heavens and their constellations won’t shine their light; the sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon won’t shine its light.

²³ Then the moon will be embarrassed and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem; and in the presence of its elders there will be glory.”

¹¹ The sun and moon stand still in their orbits; at the glint of your arrows they speed along, even at the gleam of your flashing spear.

⁴⁵ Jesus Dies on the Cross
From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

⁴¹ One kind of splendor belongs to the sun, another to the moon, and still another to the stars. In fact, one star differs from another star in splendor.

⁸ The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, which then was allowed to burn people with fire, ⁹ and they were burned by the fierce heat. They cursed the name of God, who has the authority over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

²³ The city doesn’t need any sun or moon to give it light, because the glory of God gave it light, and the lamb was its lamp.

¹² “Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives,

¹ To the Director: On a stringed instrument. A Davidic Psalm.
Divine Glory and Human Dignity LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! You set your glory above the heavens!

⁴⁷ For that is what the Lord ordered us to do: ‘I have made you a light to the gentiles to be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.’”

⁷ So God made a canopy that separated the water beneath the canopy from the water above it. And that is what happened:

²² God blessed them by saying, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the oceans. Let the birds multiply throughout the earth!”

³⁰ I have given all green plants as food for every wild animal of the earth, every bird that flies, and to every living thing that crawls on the earth.” And that is what happened.

¹⁹ After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name.

¹⁷ Bring out with you every living creature—including the flying creatures, animals, and everything that crawls on the ground—so they may disperse throughout the land, be fruitful, and multiply throughout the earth.”

³³ He described trees—everything from cedars that grow in Lebanon to hyssop that grows on a garden wall. He described animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

²⁴ How numerous are your works, LORD! You have made them all wisely; the earth is filled with your creations. ²⁵ There is the deep and wide sea, teeming with numberless creatures, living things small and great.

¹⁰ living creatures and livestock, insects and flying birds,

²¹ For sometimes people who strive to obtain wisdom, knowledge, and equity leave everything as an inheritance to a person who never worked for it. This, too, is pointless and greatly troublesome.

²⁵ and he isn’t served by people as if he needed anything. He himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything else.

²⁰ From birds according to their species, from domestic animals according to their species, and from everything that crawls on the ground according to their species—two of everything will come to you so they may remain alive.

¹⁴ along with every species of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and every creature that has wings.

¹⁹ Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups.

⁷ Now as for you, be productive and multiply; spread out over the land and multiply throughout it.”

⁷ But the Israelis were fruitful and increased abundantly. They multiplied in numbers and became very, very strong. As a result, the land was filled with them.

³ The Nile will swarm with frogs. They’ll come up and enter your house, your bedroom, your bed, and your servants’ houses. They’ll jump on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.

¹² Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you keep watching me?

⁵ Job Acknowledges God’s Power“The ghosts of the dead writhe under the waters along with those who live there with them.

²⁴ How numerous are your works, LORD! You have made them all wisely; the earth is filled with your creations. ²⁵ There is the deep and wide sea, teeming with numberless creatures, living things small and great. ²⁶ There, the ships pass through; Leviathan, which you created, frolics in it.

² “Son of Man, start singing this lamentation about Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Tell him, ‘You may have called yourself a lion among nations, but you’re a monster at sea. You thrash about in your rivers, muddy the water with your feet, and relieve yourself in the rivers.’

¹⁷ Now the LORD had prepared a large sea creature to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the sea creature for three days and three nights.

¹⁰ Then the LORD spoke to the sea creature, and it spewed Jonah onto the dry land.

⁴⁰ because just as Jonah was in the stomach of the sea creature for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

²⁸ God blessed the humans by saying to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!”

¹ The Covenant with NoahGod blessed Noah and his sons and ordered them, “Be productive, multiply, and fill the earth.

²⁷ Then Laban responded, “If I’ve found favor in your sight, please stay with me, because I’ve learned through divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.

³⁰ What you had previously was only a few head, but the herd has now multiplied, because the LORD has blessed you through my efforts. But now, when am I going to be able to provide for my own household?”

¹¹ and also told him, “I am God Almighty. You are to be fruitful and multiply. You will become a nation— in fact, an assembly of nations! Kings will come from you— they’ll emerge from your own loins!

⁹ “I’ll look after you, ensuring that you’ll be fruitful. I’ll increase your number and keep my covenant with you.

¹⁵ On Behemoth“Please observe Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like an ox.

¹² The LORD blessed Job during the latter part of his life more than the former, since he owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

³¹ Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love and for his awesome deeds on behalf of mankind.

³⁸ Then he blessed them, and they became numerous; he multiplied their cattle.

³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding your table.

¹³ May our granaries be filled, storing produce in abundance; may our sheep bring forth thousands, even tens of thousands in our fields. ¹⁴ May our cattle grow heavy with young, with no damage or loss. May there be no cry of anguish in our streets!

²² The blessing of the LORD establishes wealth, and difficulty does not accompany it.

³⁹ On the Animal World“Can you hunt prey for the lioness to satisfy young lions ⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens and lie in ambush in their lairs?

¹ On the Birth of Young “Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?

⁵ On Wild Animals“Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey

⁹ Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?

¹⁹ On the HorseDo you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

⁹ I will no longer accept a sacrificial bull from your household; nor goats from your pens. ¹⁰ Indeed, every animal of the forest is mine, even the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹⁸ The high mountains are for wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badger.

²³ People go out to their work and labor until evening.

¹⁹ After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds that fly, and to each of earth’s animals, but there was not found a strength corresponding to him,

⁸ Or ask the green plants of the earth and they’ll teach you; let the fish in the sea tell you. ⁹ Who among all of these doesn’t know that the LORD’s hand made them, ¹⁰ and that the life of every living thing rests in his control, along with the breath of every living human being?

⁵ “By my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth, mankind, and the animals that are on the face of the earth, and I give it to whomever I see fit.

²² Later, the LORD God said, “Look! The man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, so he won’t reach out, also take from the tree of life, eat, and then live forever—”

¹ From Adam to NoahThis is the historical record of Adam’s generations. When God created mankind, he made them in his own likeness.

² All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They’ve been assigned to live under your dominion.
³ “Every living, moving creature will be food for you. Just as I gave you green plants before, so now you have everything. ⁴ However, you are not to eat meat with its life—that is, its blood—in it!

⁶ “Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image.

⁷ Come on! Let’s go down there and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand each other’s speech.”

²³ For you’ll have a pact with the stones in the field; and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

¹⁰ He never asks, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives me songs in the night,

⁴ what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him? ⁵ You made him a little less than divine, but you crowned him with glory and honor. ⁶ You gave him dominion over the work of your hands, you put all things under his feet: ⁷ Sheep and cattle—all of them, wild creatures of the field, ⁸ birds in the sky, fish in the sea— whatever moves through the currents of the oceans.

³ Acknowledge that the LORD is God. He made us and we belong to him; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

²⁰ You bring darkness and it becomes night; when every beast of the forest prowls. ²¹ Young lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God. ²² When the sun rises, they gather and lie down in their dens. ²³ People go out to their work and labor until evening. ²⁴ How numerous are your works, LORD! You have made them all wisely; the earth is filled with your creations.

² May Israel rejoice in its Maker, and Zion’s descendants in their King!

²⁹ I have discovered only this: God made human beings for righteousness, but they seek many alternatives.”

⁸ Then I heard the voice of the LORD as he was asking, “Whom will I send? Who will go for us?”
“Here I am!” I replied. “Send me.”

⁸ God, our Father, will ActBut as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

⁶ Now I’ve given all these lands to my servant, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I’ve even given him the wild animals to serve him.

¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working.”

²³ Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

²⁰ It sounds rather strange to our ears, and we would like to know what it means.”

²⁶ From one man he made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth, fixing the seasons of the year and the national boundaries within which they live,

²⁸ For we live, move, and exist because of him, as some of your own poets have said: ‘…Since we are his children, too.’ ²⁹ So if we are God’s children, we shouldn’t think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.

⁷ A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God’s image and glory. But the woman is man’s glory.

¹⁸ As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord’s Spirit.

⁴ In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God.

²⁴ and to clothe yourselves with the new nature, which was created according to God’s image in righteousness and true holiness.

¹⁵ The Centrality of JesusThe Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

¹⁰ and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it.

⁶ Instead, someone has declared somewhere, “What is man that you should remember him, or the son of man that you should care for him? ⁷ You made him a little lower than the angels, yet you crowned him with glory and honor ⁸ and put everything under his feet.”Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. ⁹ But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

⁷ For all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures can be or have been tamed by humans,

⁹ With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in God’s likeness.

⁷ For there are three witnesses—

¹⁸ The Creation of the WomanLater, the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman to be an authority corresponding to him.”

²¹ so the LORD God caused a deep sleep to overshadow the man.
When the man was asleep, he removed one of the man’s ribs and closed up the flesh where it had been. ²² Then the LORD God formed the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ So the man exclaimed, “At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one will be called ‘Woman,’ because she was taken from Man.”
²⁴ (Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.) ²⁵ Even though both the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about it.

¹ From Adam to NoahThis is the historical record of Adam’s generations. When God created mankind, he made them in his own likeness. ² Creating them male and female, he blessed them and called them humans when he created them.

¹⁴ I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it.

⁷ everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.

¹⁵ Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don’t be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

⁴ He answered them, “Haven’t you read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female’

⁶ But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

⁷ A man should not cover his head, because he exists as God’s image and glory. But the woman is man’s glory. ⁸ For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; ⁹ and man was not created for woman, but woman for man.

¹⁰ For we are God’s masterpiece, created in the Messiah Jesus to perform good actions that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.

²⁶ This secret was hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints,

¹⁶ I will bless her. Furthermore, I will give you a son from her. I will bless her, so that nations, kings, and people will come from her.”

²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I’ve heard you. I’ll bless him, and he’ll have many descendants. I will multiply him greatly, he’ll father twelve tribal leaders, and I’ll cause his descendants to become a great nation.

¹⁷ I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in heaven and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies. ¹⁸ Furthermore, through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my command.”

⁶⁰ As they were leaving, they all blessed Rebekah by saying, “Our sister, may you become the mother of tens of millions! May your descendants take over the city gates of those who hate them.”

³ Remain in this land, and I’ll be with and bless you by giving all these lands to you and to your descendants in fulfillment of my solemn promise that I made to your father Abraham. ⁴ I’ll cause you to have as many descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I’ll certainly give all these lands to your descendants. Later on, through your descendants all the nations of the earth will bless one another.

²⁴ where one night the LORD appeared to him. “I am the God of your father Abraham,” he told him. “Don’t be afraid, because I’m with you. I’m going to bless you and multiply your descendants on account of my servant Abraham.”

⁵ When Esau eventually looked around, he saw the women and the children. “Who are these people with you?” he asked.
“The children, whom God has graciously given your servant,” he answered.

²⁵ by your father’s God who helps you, by the Almighty who will keep on blessing you with blessings from heaven above, with blessings from the deepest ocean, with blessing from the breasts and the womb.

¹⁰ Later on, Jabez called on the God of Israel, asking him, “…whether you would bless me again and again, enlarge my territory, keep your power with me, keep me from evil, and keep me from harm!” And God granted what he had requested.

⁵ Ammiel his sixth, Issachar his seventh, and Peullethai his eighth, since God had blessed him.

³⁴ Let the heavens and earth praise him, along with the sea and its swarming creatures.

¹ A Solomonic Song of Ascents
God’s Blessing in the Family Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor uselessly. Unless the LORD guards the city, its security forces keep watch uselessly. ² It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor— truly he gives sleep to those he loves. ³ Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD’s reward. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so also are children born during one’s youth. ⁵ How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be ashamed as they confront their enemies at the city gate.

³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots surrounding your table. ⁴ See how the man will be blessed who fears the LORD.

³ They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

³ “Every living, moving creature will be food for you. Just as I gave you green plants before, so now you have everything.

³¹ He uses them to judge some people and give food to many.

¹ A Davidic Psalm.
A Song for the King of Glory The earth and everything in it exists for the LORD— the world and those who live in it.

¹⁴ He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land, ¹⁵ like wine that makes the heart of people happy, oil that makes the face glow, and food that sustains people.

²⁷ All of them look to you to provide them their food at the proper time. ²⁸ They receive what you give them; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.

⁵ He prepares food for those who fear him; he is ever mindful of his covenant.

¹⁶ The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but he gave the earth to human beings.

²⁵ He gives food to all creatures, for his gracious love is everlasting.

¹⁵ Everyone’s eyes are on you, as you give them their food in due time. ¹⁶ You open your hand and keep on satisfying the desire of every living thing.

⁷ who brings justice for the oppressed, and who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners;

⁹ He gives wild animals their food, including the young ravens when they cry.

¹⁶ this is the one who will live on the heights; his refuge will be a mountain fortress. His food will be supplied, and his water will be guaranteed.

⁸ She didn’t recognize that it was I who provided her grain, wine, and oil, and it was I who gave her silver, while they crafted gold for Baal.

¹¹ Give us today our daily bread,

²⁵ Stop Worrying
“That’s why I’m telling you to stop worrying about your life—what you will eat or what you will drink—or about your body—what you will wear. Life is more than food, isn’t it, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶ Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren’t you?

¹⁷ yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy.”

²⁴ The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn’t live in shrines made by human hands, ²⁵ and he isn’t served by people as if he needed anything. He himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything else.

²⁸ For we live, move, and exist because of him, as some of your own poets have said: ‘…Since we are his children, too.’

¹⁷ Advice for the WealthyTell those who are rich in this age not to be arrogant and not to place their confidence in anything as uncertain as riches. Instead, let them place their confidence in God, who lavishly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

³⁹ On the Animal World“Can you hunt prey for the lioness to satisfy young lions ⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens and lie in ambush in their lairs? ⁴¹ Who prepares food for the raven, when its offspring cry out to God as they wander for lack of food?”

⁴ Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don’t return to them.”

⁸ He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.

³⁰ His young ones feast on blood; he’ll be found wherever there’s a carcass.”

²⁰ Mountains produce food for him, where all the wild animals frolic.

¹⁴ He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,

² By the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done.

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
God’s Revelation in the Heavens The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands. ² Day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they reveal knowledge.

³⁸ Do not both good and evil things proceed from the mouth of the Most High?

⁴ For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,