YRU God Relating to Nature

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.

I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

For I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have moved around in a tent and in a tabernacle.

In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

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,

The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

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.

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

In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.

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.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

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.

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

Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

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.

It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Thus says Yahweh, "In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:

I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.

How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion."

but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.

but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its palaces.

but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces."

but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah."

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;

but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem."

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

"Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.

I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.

Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says Yahweh. 'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says Yahweh, 'and work, for I am with you,' says Yahweh of Armies.

For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.

Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.

"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the earth.

from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."

However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'

But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."

Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,

"Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt."

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus.

He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." They cast it therefore, and now they weren't able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.

Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught."

Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.

You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don't see all things subjected to him, yet.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

"To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:

"I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

"Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!"