1522 verses about Creation

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;

Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;

who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.

All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.” Selah.

The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai— at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.