Genesis 8:22

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.

They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;

Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.