You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
- BSB When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
- NKJV You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth.
- NASB You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground.
- NLT When you give them your breath, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth.
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- Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- Rev 21:5He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”
- Ezek 37:9Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
- Job 26:13By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
- Ps 33:6By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
- Isa 65:17“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.
- Titus 3:5not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
- Isa 66:22“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.
- Eph 2:1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
- Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
- Isa 32:14–15For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
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