Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.
They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.
See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.
Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.
Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
And Ezra gave praise to the Lord, the great God. And all the people in answer said, So be it, so be it; lifting up their hands; and with bent heads they gave worship to the Lord, going down on their faces to the earth.
You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.
Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.
So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given way to their desires.
The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.
Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.
But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;
But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.
And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two;
And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.
So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.
And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.
In the first month all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the earth.
See, the people who have come out of Egypt are covering all the earth: now, put a curse on this people for me, so that I may be able to make war on them, driving them out of the land.
And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard blows with his stick.
Then the Lord made Balaam's eyes open, and he saw the angel of the Lord in the way with his sword in his hand: and he went down on his face to the earth.
So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:
And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.
While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him.
You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?
So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!
Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.
The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.
Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:
There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:
Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?
The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.
From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.
When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.
When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:
Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.
<A Psalm of Praise.> Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth.
To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.
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