Quotes About Creation

Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?

I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.

I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.í

I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.í”

The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ëWhat have You done?í”

“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.

Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

“I am a Hebrew,” replied Jonah. “I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.

Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.