14 Bible Verses about Orderliness In Creation

“I made the earth and created man upon it.
My hands, stretched out the heavens,
And I commanded all their host.

God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good and He validated it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

“It is He who spreads out the north over emptiness
And hangs the earth on nothing.

“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],
And the cloud does not burst under them.

“He covers the face of the full moon
And spreads His cloud over it.
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“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters
At the boundary between light and darkness.

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know and have understanding.

“Who determined the measurements [of the earth], if you know?
Or who stretched the [measuring] line on it?

“On what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
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When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God (angels) shouted for joy?
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When it burst forth and went out of the womb;

When I made the clouds its garment
And thick darkness its swaddling band,

And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],

And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?

When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established,

The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And the expanse [of heaven] is declaring the work of His hands.

He established the earth on its foundations,
So that it will not be moved forever and ever.

You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.

At Your rebuke they fled;
At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
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The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.

You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.

Lift up your eyes on high
And see who has created these heavenly bodies,
The One who brings out their host by number,
He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,
Not one is missing.

And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands and territories.

“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

You visit the earth and make it overflow [with water];
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You provide their grain, when You have prepared the earth.

He causes grass to grow for the cattle,
And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man,
So that he may bring food from the earth—

And wine which makes the heart of man glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And bread to sustain and strengthen man’s heart.

The trees of the Lord drink their fill,
The cedars of Lebanon which He has planted,
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Where the birds make their nests;
As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
The high mountains are for the wild goats;
The rocks are a refuge for the shephanim.

He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the [exact] place of its setting.

You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night,
In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

The young lions roar after their prey
And seek their food from God.

When the sun arises, they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.

Man goes out to his work
And remains at his labor until evening.
O Lord, how many and varied are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all;
The earth is full of Your riches and Your creatures.

There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Creatures both small and great.

There the ships [of the sea] sail,
And Leviathan [the sea monster], which You have formed to play there.
They all wait for You
To give them their food in its appointed season.

The eyes of all look to You [in hopeful expectation],
And You give them their food in due time.

yet He did not leave Himself without some witness [as evidence of Himself], in that He kept constantly doing good things and showing you kindness, and giving you rains from heaven and productive seasons, filling your hearts with food and happiness.”