Quotes About Creation

He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

“Dominion and awe belong to God; He establishes harmony in the heights of heaven.

Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,