Bible Verses About Animals

The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.

That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.

And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.

He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:

The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:

The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by their bands:

The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings' houses.

I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there:

And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.

Or if I also send the pestilence upon that land, and pour out my indignation upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: but they shall only deliver their own souls by their justice.

For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast,

Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.

To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country.

Yea, and the beasts of the field have looked up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth after rain, for the springs of waters are dried up, and fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness.