12 Bible Verses about Animals, Care For

And God said to Noah and to his sons, Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you, And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

And the Lord will make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; there will be no loss of any of the cattle of Israel. And the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said, Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land. And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.

For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood? Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young? Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.read more.
Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again. Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast? To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place. He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears; He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing. Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store? Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you? Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care? Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor? Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers, That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust, Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field? She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear. For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge. When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him. Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power? Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath? He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear. In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword. The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow. Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn; When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries. Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south? Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high? On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place. From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places. The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.

And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?