You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground.
Parallel translations
- WEB You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
- 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.
- 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 has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
- 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.
- 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.”
- Ps 33:6By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
- Job 26:13By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
- 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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