Bible Verses About Animals

You bring darkness, and it is night, the time when all forest animals prowl.

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

The sun rises, they slink away and lie down to rest in their dens;

while people go out to their work, laboring on till evening.

What variety there is in your works, ADONAI! How many [of them there are]! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creations.

Look at the sea, so great, so wide! It teems with countless creatures, living beings, both large and small.

Go to the ant, you lazybones! Consider its ways, and be wise.

It has no chief, overseer or ruler;

yet it provides its food in summer and gathers its supplies at harvest-time.

the ants, a species not strong, yet they store up their food in the summer;

the coneys, a species with little power, yet they make their home in the rocks;

the locusts, who have no king, yet they all march out in ranks;

and the spiders, which you can catch in your hand, yet they are in the king's palace.

Concerning people, I said to myself, "God is testing them, so that they will see that by themselves they are just animals.

After all, the same things that happen to people happen to animals, the very same thing - just as the one dies, so does the other. Yes, their breath is the same; so that humans are no better than animals; since nothing matters, anyway.

They all go to the same place; they all come from dust, and they all return to dust.

Who knows if the spirit of a human being goes upward and the spirit of an animal goes downward into the earth?"

But wildcats will lie there, their houses will be full of owls, ostriches will live there, and wild goats will dance there.

Jackals will howl in their palaces and wild dogs in their temples of delight. Its time is close at hand, its days will not last long.

"Or if I bring a plague into that land and pour out my fury on it in bloodshed, so that I eliminate both its humans and its animals;

even if Noach, Dani'el and Iyov were in it, as I live," says Adonai ELOHIM, "they would save neither a son nor a daughter; they would save only themselves by their righteousness."

For here is what Adonai ELOHIM says: "Even if I inflict my four dreadful judgments on Yerushalayim - sword, famine, wild animals and plagues - to eliminate both its humans and its animals;

How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep bear the punishment, too.

ADONAI, I cry out to you! For the fire has consumed the pastures in the desert, and the flame set ablaze all the trees in the fields.

Even the wild animals come to you, panting, because the streambeds have dried up, and fire has consumed the pastures in the desert."