Genesis 8
1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. 

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. 

13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. 

15 Then God said to Noah, 16 "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it." 

18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ark, one kind after another. 

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. 

22 "As long as the earth endures, 
seedtime and harvest, 
cold and heat, 
summer and winter, 
day and night 
will never cease."

Genesis 9:1-17
God's Covenant With Noah 
1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. 
4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. 

6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, 
by man shall his blood be shed; 
for in the image of God 
has God made man. 

7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." 

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 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." 

12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." 

17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

Job 36:22-33
22 "God is exalted in his power. 
Who is a teacher like him? 

23 Who has prescribed his ways for him, 
or said to him, 'You have done wrong'? 

24 Remember to extol his work, 
which men have praised in song. 

25 All mankind has seen it; 
men gaze on it from afar. 

26 How great is God—beyond our understanding! 
The number of his years is past finding out. 

27 "He draws up the drops of water, 
which distill as rain to the streams [c] ; 

28 the clouds pour down their moisture 
and abundant showers fall on mankind. 

29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, 
how he thunders from his pavilion? 

30 See how he scatters his lightning about him, 
bathing the depths of the sea. 

31 This is the way he governs [d] the nations 
and provides food in abundance. 

32 He fills his hands with lightning 
and commands it to strike its mark. 

33 His thunder announces the coming storm; 
even the cattle make known its approach.

Job 37:1-13
1 "At this my heart pounds 
and leaps from its place. 

2 Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, 
to the rumbling that comes from his mouth. 

3 He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven 
and sends it to the ends of the earth. 

4 After that comes the sound of his roar; 
he thunders with his majestic voice. 
When his voice resounds, 
he holds nothing back. 

5 God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; 
he does great things beyond our understanding. 

6 He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' 
and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.' 

7 So that all men he has made may know his work, 
he stops every man from his labor.  

8 The animals take cover; 
they remain in their dens. 

9 The tempest comes out from its chamber, 
the cold from the driving winds. 

10 The breath of God produces ice, 
and the broad waters become frozen. 

11 He loads the clouds with moisture; 
he scatters his lightning through them. 

12 At his direction they swirl around 
over the face of the whole earth 
to do whatever he commands them. 

13 He brings the clouds to punish men, 
or to water his earth [b] and show his love.

Psalm 29
1 Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, 
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. 

2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; 
worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness. 

3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; 
the God of glory thunders, 
the LORD thunders over the mighty waters. 

4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; 
the voice of the LORD is majestic. 

5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; 
the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 

6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, 
Sirion like a young wild ox. 

7 The voice of the LORD strikes 
with flashes of lightning. 

8 The voice of the LORD shakes the desert; 
the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh. 

9 The voice of the LORD twists the oaks  
and strips the forests bare. 
And in his temple all cry, "Glory!" 

10 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; 
the LORD is enthroned as King forever. 

11 The LORD gives strength to his people; 
the LORD blesses his people with peace.

Psalm 36:5-9
5 Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, 
your faithfulness to the skies. 

6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, 
your justice like the great deep. 
O LORD, you preserve both man and beast. 

7 How priceless is your unfailing love! 
Both high and low among men 
find refuge in the shadow of your wings. 

8 They feast on the abundance of your house; 
you give them drink from your river of delights. 

9 For with you is the fountain of life; 
in your light we see light.

Psalm 124
1 If the LORD had not been on our side—
let Israel say- 
2 if the LORD had not been on our side 
when men attacked us, 

3 when their anger flared against us, 
they would have swallowed us alive; 

4 the flood would have engulfed us, 
the torrent would have swept over us, 

5 the raging waters 
would have swept us away. 

6 Praise be to the LORD, 
who has not let us be torn by their teeth. 

7 We have escaped like a bird 
out of the fowler's snare; 
the snare has been broken, 
and we have escaped. 

8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, 
the Maker of heaven and earth.

Jeremiah 31:35-37
35 This is what the LORD says, 
he who appoints the sun 
to shine by day, 
who decrees the moon and stars 
to shine by night, 
who stirs up the sea 
so that its waves roar— 
the LORD Almighty is his name: 

36 "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," 
declares the LORD, 
"will the descendants of Israel ever cease 
to be a nation before me." 

37 This is what the LORD says: 
"Only if the heavens above can be measured 
and the foundations of the earth below be searched out 
will I reject all the descendants of Israel 
because of all they have done," 
declares the LORD.

Romans 8:31-39
31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: 
"For your sake we face death all day long; 
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Peter 1:3-12
Praise to God for a Living Hope 
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.