The Earth
78 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
47 sections
- Burning at God Presence
- Corrupted by Sin
- Created to be Inhabited
- Diversified by Hills and Mountains
- First Division of
- Full of God's Glory
- Full of God's Goodness
- Full of God's Mercy
- Full of God's Riches
- Full of Minerals
- God: Created
- God: Enlightens
- God: Establishes
- God: Formed
- God: Governs Supremely
- God: Inspects
- God: Laid the Foundation of
- God: Makes Fruitful
- God: Reigns In
- God: Shall be Exalted In
- God: Spread Abroad
- God: Supports
- God: Suspended in Space
- God: Waters
- God's Footstool
- Ideas of the Ancients Respecting the Form of
- Made Barren by Sin
- Made to Mourn and Languish by Sin
- Man by Nature is of
- Man by Nature Minds the Thing of
- Man: Brought a Curse On
- Man: Formed out of
- Man: Given Dominion Over
- Man: Shall Return To
- Melting at God's Voice
- Not to be Again Inundated
- Once Inundated
- Saints Shall Inherit
- Satan Goes to and Fro In
- Shall be Filled with the Knowledge of God
- Shining with God's Glory
- Subject to God's Judgments
- The Dry Land As Divided from Waters
- The World in General
- To be Dissolved by Fire
- To be Renewed
- Trembling Before God
Burning at God Presence
- Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
Corrupted by Sin
- Genesis 6:11–12 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence. …
- Isaiah 24:5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
Created to be Inhabited
- Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens— He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Diversified by Hills and Mountains
- Habakkuk 3:6 He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
First Division of
- Genesis 10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.
Full of God's Glory
- Numbers 14:21 “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
- Isaiah 6:3 And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.”
Full of God's Goodness
- Psalm 33:5 The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
Full of God's Mercy
- Psalm 119:64 The earth is filled with Your loving devotion, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
Full of God's Riches
- Psalm 104:24 How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
Full of Minerals
- Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
- Job 28:1–5 “Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined. …
- Job 28:15–19 It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver. …
God: Created
- Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Nehemiah 9:6 You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
God: Enlightens
- Genesis 1:14–16 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years. …
- Jeremiah 33:25 This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
God: Establishes
- Psalm 78:69 He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
- Psalm 119:90 Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.
God: Formed
- Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
God: Governs Supremely
- Job 34:13 Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?
- Psalm 135:6 The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.
God: Inspects
- Zechariah 4:10 For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”
God: Laid the Foundation of
- Job 38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
- Psalm 102:25 In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
God: Makes Fruitful
- Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
- Genesis 27:28 May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth — an abundance of grain and new wine.
God: Reigns In
- Exodus 8:22 But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.
- Psalm 97:1 The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the distant shores be glad.
God: Shall be Exalted In
- Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
God: Spread Abroad
- Isaiah 42:5 This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
- Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
God: Supports
- Psalm 75:3 When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
God: Suspended in Space
- Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
God: Waters
- Psalm 65:9 You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Psalm 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
God's Footstool
- Isaiah 66:1 This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
- Matthew 5:35 or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
Ideas of the Ancients Respecting the Form of
- Job 11:9 Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
- Job 38:18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
- Proverbs 25:3 As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.
Made Barren by Sin
- Deuteronomy 28:23 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Psalm 107:34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Made to Mourn and Languish by Sin
- Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
- Jeremiah 4:28 Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
- Jeremiah 12:4 How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- Hosea 4:3 Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
Man by Nature is of
- 1 Corinthians 15:47–48 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. …
Man by Nature Minds the Thing of
- Philippians 3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
Man: Brought a Curse On
- Genesis 3:17 And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Man: Formed out of
- Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Psalm 103:14 For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
Man: Given Dominion Over
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Psalm 115:16 The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
Man: Shall Return To
- Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground — because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Psalm 146:4 When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Melting at God's Voice
- Psalm 46:6 Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
Not to be Again Inundated
- Genesis 9:11 And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
- 2 Peter 3:6–7 through which the world of that time perished in the flood. …
Once Inundated
- Genesis 7:17–24 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. …
Saints Shall Inherit
- Psalm 25:13 His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
- Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Satan Goes to and Fro In
- Job 1:7 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
- 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Shall be Filled with the Knowledge of God
- Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
- Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Shining with God's Glory
- Ezekiel 43:2 and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory.
Subject to God's Judgments
- Psalm 46:8 Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth.
- Isaiah 11:4 but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
The Dry Land As Divided from Waters
- Genesis 1:10 God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
The World in General
- Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
To be Dissolved by Fire
- 2 Peter 3:7 And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- 2 Peter 3:10 But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
- 2 Peter 3:12 as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.
To be Renewed
- Isaiah 65:17 For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
- 2 Peter 3:13 But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
Trembling Before God
- Psalm 68:8 the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
- Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.