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He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
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Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
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People, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts that perish.
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People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish.
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I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
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Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
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I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.
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Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.
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They give water to all the beasts of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
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He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.
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You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl.
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I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
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when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
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a lion, mighty among beasts, who retreats before nothing;
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A dream comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool.
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On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations.
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No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,
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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?
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The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in human form, human form in all its glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
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Gods of Babylon
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary.
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God’s Accusation Against the Wicked
Come, all you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!
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Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.
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“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.
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Has not my inheritance become to me like a speckled bird of prey that other birds of prey surround and attack? Go and gather all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.
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I will strike down those who live in this city—both man and beast—and they will die of a terrible plague.
