אֶ֫רֶץ

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!

…there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’

Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:

Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.

Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.

The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.

Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.

Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

…before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

The flowers have appeared in the countryside; the season of singing has come, and the cooing of turtledoves is heard in our land.

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.

Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.”

…until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.

On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.

…and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”

For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

…but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.