Creation Groaning and Praising
Personifications · 6 verses
Scripture personifies all creation as responsive to its Creator. The heavens declare God's glory; day unto day uttereth speech. The mountains and hills break forth into singing; the trees clap their hands. Yet creation also groans under the curse, subjected to vanity, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. The earth mourns and languishes under sin's weight. Blood cries out from the ground. The land vomits out inhabitants for their wickedness. Rivers clap their hands; floods lift up their voice. Fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind fulfill His word. This personification reveals creation as not merely backdrop but participant in the drama of redemption—longing for liberation and destined for renewal.
Scripture References
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.”
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”
“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
“For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
“Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together.”
“And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.”