For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I comman
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the
We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the ev
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of vi
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.