Bible Verses About Animals

Thou makest darkenesse, and it is night, wherein all the beastes of the forest creepe forth.

The lions roare after their praye, and seeke their meate at God.

When the sunne riseth, they retire, and couche in their dennes.

Then goeth man forth to his worke, and to his labour vntill the euening.

O Lord, howe manifolde are thy workes! in wisdome hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

So is this sea great and wide: for therein are things creeping innumerable, both small beastes and great.

Goe to the pismire, O sluggarde: beholde her waies, and be wise.

For shee hauing no guide, gouernour, nor ruler,

Prepareth her meat in the sommer, and gathereth her foode in haruest.

The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:

The conies a people not mightie, yet make their houses in the rocke:

The grashopper hath no King, yet goe they forth all by bandes:

The spider taketh holde with her handes, and is in Kings palaces.

I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.

For the condition of the children of men, and the condition of beasts are euen as one condition vnto them. As the one dyeth, so dyeth the other: for they haue all one breath, and there is no excellency of man aboue ye beast: for all is vanitie.

All goe to one place, and all was of the dust, and all shall returne to the dust.

Who knoweth whether the spirit of man ascend vpward, and the spirit of the beast descend downeward to the earth?

But Ziim shall lodge there, and their houses shall be ful of Ohim: Ostriches shall dwel there, and the Satyrs shall dance there.

And Iim shall crie in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and the time thereof is readie to come, and the daies thereof shall not be prolonged.

Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and powre out my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast,

And though Noah, Daniel and Iob were in the middes of it, As I liue, sayth the Lord God, they shall deliuer neither sonne nor daughter: they shall but deliuer their owne soules by their righteousnes.

For thus saith the Lord God, Howe much more when I sende my foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem, euen the sworde, and famine, and the noysome beast and pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?

How did the beasts mourne! the herdes of cattel pine away, because they haue no pasture, and the flockes of sheepe are destroyed.

O Lord, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt vp all the trees of the fielde.

The beasts of the fielde cry also vnto thee: for the riuers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernes.