Wickedness in the World

When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

The Tower of Babel

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.

Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor. “For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; on them he has set the world.

This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

From all nations people came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the world, who had heard of his wisdom.

For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the other peoples of the world—the work of human hands.

He is driven from light into the realm of darkness and is banished from the world.

Who appointed him over the earth? Who put him in charge of the whole world?

He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.

By your hand save me from such people, Lord, from those of this world whose reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies; may their children gorge themselves on it, and may there be leftovers for their little ones.

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

Psalm 24

Of David. A psalm.

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere him.

Psalm 49

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who live in this world,

If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it.

Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.