Quotes About Creation

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

“Go down at once to the potterís house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”

So I went down to the potterís house and saw him working at the wheel.

But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potterís hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?

“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:

“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

but each had four faces and four wings.

The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.

Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two wings covering its body.

As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.

Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.