“I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.

But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior.

The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.

I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth – blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

Look, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling place! He will descend and march on the earth’s mountaintops!

The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates.

For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.

I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking.

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface.

This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.

Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah: ‘I am ready to shake the sky and the earth.

Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, “These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk about on the earth.”

So he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”

I asked, “What is it?” And he replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said, “This is their ‘eye’ throughout all the earth.”

He replied, “To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”

“All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the Lord who rules over all.

God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” It was so.

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”