Bible verses about "pets" | NSB

²⁶ Then God said: »Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.«

¹ »Men younger than I am make fun of me now! Their fathers have always been so worthless that I would not let them help dogs guard sheep.

⁶ Let everything that breathes praise Jehovah! Praise Jehovah!

²⁷ All of them wait for you to give them their food at the proper time. ²⁸ You give it to them, and they gather it up. You open your hand, and they are satisfied with many blessings. ²⁹ You hide your face, and they are frightened. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust. ³⁰ You send out your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth.

⁵ Your loving-kindness, O Jehovah, extends to the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. ⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like great deep water. O Jehovah, you preserve man and beast.

¹⁸ Jehovah God said: »It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.« ¹⁹ Then Jehovah God formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to let him name them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

²⁴ God said: »Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.« It was so. ²⁵ God made the wild animals according to their kinds. He made the livestock according to their kinds and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

¹ Jehovah sent Nathan to David. Nathan came to him and said: »There were two men in a certain city. One was rich and the other was poor. ² »The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle. ³ But the poor man had only one little female lamb that he bought. He raised her, and she grew up in his home with his children. She would eat his food and drink from his cup. She rested in his arms and was like a daughter to him. ⁴ »Now, a visitor came to the rich man. The rich man thought it would be a pity to take one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler. So he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the traveler.« ⁵ David became very angry with the rich man. He said: »I swear by the living God Jehovah that the man who did this should die! ⁶ »For doing such a cruel thing he should pay back four times for the lamb he took, for he had no compassion.«

⁶ The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the well-fed animal together. A little boy will lead them.

⁹ Jehovah is good to all and his mercies are over all his works. ¹⁰ All your works (activities) (achievements) praise you, O Jehovah, and your godly ones will praise you.

⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like great deep water. O Jehovah, you preserve man and beast.

²⁵ He gives food to all flesh, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

⁶ »Are not five sparrows sold for two coins of small value? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

¹⁰ A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, but the compassion of the wicked is terrible.