Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Parallel translations
- WEB You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
- 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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Quick answer
When God sends out His Spirit, creatures are created and the face of the ground is renewed. The Spirit is the giver and renewer of life.
Overview
God's Spirit is the agent of creation and of ongoing renewal across the earth. Life continually arises by His breath. This points forward to the Holy Spirit who gives new birth and will renew the whole creation, raising God's people in the new creation Christ secures.
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Cross-references · 11
- Job 33:4The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
- Ezek 37:9Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
- Rev 21:5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
- Ps 33:6By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
- Job 26:13By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
- Isa 65:17For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
- Titus 3:5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
- Isa 66:22For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
- Eph 2:1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- Eph 2:4–5But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
- Isa 32:14–15Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
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