14 Bible Verses about Orderliness In Creation
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I made the earth,
and created man on it.
It was My hands that stretched out the heavens,
and I commanded all their host.
God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.
He stretches the northern skies over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.
He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.
He obscures the view of His throne,
spreading His cloud over it.
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He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
Where were you when I established the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
What supports its foundations?
Or who laid its cornerstone
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while the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its blanket,
when I determined its boundaries
and put its bars and doors in place,
when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?
When I observe Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You set in place,
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky proclaims the work of His hands.
He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.
You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
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mountains rose and valleys sank—
to the place You established for them.
You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.
Look up and see:
who created these?
He brings out the starry host by number;
He calls all of them by name.
Because of His great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.
From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.
As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, and day and night
will not cease.”
You visit the earth and water it abundantly,
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth in this way,
providing people with grain.
He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,
wine that makes man’s heart glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man’s heart. The trees of the Lord flourish,
the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.
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There the birds make their nests;
the stork makes its home in the pine trees.
The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes. He made the moon to mark the festivals;
the sun knows when to set.
You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.
The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.
The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.
Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening. How countless are Your works, Lord!
In wisdom You have made them all;
the earth is full of Your creatures.
Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.
There the ships move about,
and Leviathan, which You formed to play there. All of them wait for You
to give them their food at the right time.
All eyes look to You,
and You give them their food at the proper time.
although He did not leave Himself without a witness, since He did what is good by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons and satisfying your hearts with food and happiness.”