Bible Verses AboutEarth
Bible verses about Earth
Exploring what the Bible says about the Earth invites us into a deeper understanding of our role within God's creation. Scripture reveals the Earth not merely as a stage for human activity, but as a testament to God's artistry, power, and loving provision. Reflecting on these verses encourages us to cultivate a sense of stewardship and reverence for the planet, recognizing its intrinsic value in God's eyes. Understanding the Earth through a biblical lens can transform our perspective, inspiring us to live in harmony with nature and to champion its care as an act of worship.
Most Helpful Verses
Begin with these carefully selected verses that address this topic most directly.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
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Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Reflection
Contemplating Earth
The Bible's verses about the Earth, from its creation to its promised renewal, paint a profound picture of God's creative power, ownership, and enduring love for humanity. They remind us that the Earth is not merely a resource to be exploited but a sacred gift to be stewarded responsibly, reflecting God's glory and providing for all life. From the command to cultivate and care for the Garden of Eden to the vision of a new heaven and a new Earth, these scriptures urge us toward a deeper appreciation for the planet's inherent value. Let us reflect on our role as inhabitants of this Earth, committing to live in harmony with creation, seeking justice in our treatment of the environment, and eagerly anticipating the fulfillment of God's promise of a renewed and restored world where righteousness dwells.
May these verses about earth bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey
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