Geology: General Scriptures Concerning

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base. …

The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved. …

He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.

But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water, …