1522 verses about Creation

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

These see Yahweh’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep.

For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?

Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.

This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes. TET

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Our help is in Yahweh’s name, who made heaven and earth.

May Yahweh bless you from Zion; even he who made heaven and earth.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings the wind out of his treasuries;

To him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever:

To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever:

To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:

The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;

The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

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

Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.

He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?

He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.

Let them praise Yahweh’s name, For he commanded, and they were created.

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths;

lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;

wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

“To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.

“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;

while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

“For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up:

“There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

“There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going:

One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.