10 Bible Verses about Ecological Concerns

Now Jehovah God planted a garden in the east, in Eden. He put the man he had formed there.

All its land is brimstone and salt. It is a burning waste, unsown and unproductive. No grass grows on it. Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath.

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water because it tasted bitter. That is why the place was called Marah (Bitter Place). The people complained about Moses. They asked: What can we drink? Moses cried out to Jehovah. Jehovah showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. Jehovah presented laws and rules for them to live by. He tested them there.

This is what you must do whenever you blockade a city for a long time in order to capture it in war. Do not harm any of its fruit trees with an ax. You may eat the fruit. Never cut those trees down, because the trees of the field are not people you have come to blockade.

The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens. Look at the earth below. The heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants die like flies (gnats). But my salvation will last forever! My righteousness will never fail.

You will conquer all their beautiful fortified cities. You will cut down all their fruit trees, stop all their springs, and ruin all their fertile fields by covering them with stones.

It will completely destroy the splendor of his forests and fertile fields, as when a sick man wastes away.

The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles!

If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together.