Psalms 104:30
When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
BSB
ASV
Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; And thou renewest the face of the ground.
KJV
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
So when the Spirit was moving on the water, the creation was without grace; but after this world being created underwent the operation of the Spirit, it gained all the beauty of that grace wherewith the world is illuminated. And that the grace of the universe cannot abide without the Holy Spirit the prophet declared when he said, "You will take away your Spirit, and they will fail and be turned again into their dust. Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be made, and you will renew all the face of the earth."
ON THE HOLY SPIRIT 19:49 (379)
Resurrection from the dead is accomplished by the operation of the Spirit: "You send forth your Spirit, and they are created; and you renew the face of the earth." If "creation" means the conversion of sinners to a better way of life (the Scripture often understands it this way; for example, the words of Paul: "If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation."), and the renewal of this earthly life and changing our earthly, passionate life into heavenly citizenship, then we should know that our souls attain such a high degree of exaltation through the Spirit.
Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created,.... Thy Holy Spirit, as the Targum, who was at first concerned in the creation of all things, the heavens and the earth, and man upon it, Gen 1:2, Job 26:13 which may be alluded to here; though it seems chiefly to intend the generation and production of creatures in the room of those that die off; that so their species may be preserved, and there may be a constant succession of them, as there is in all ages, Ecc 1:
The entire dependence of this immense family on God is set forth. With Him, to kill or make alive is equally easy. To hide His face is to withdraw favor (Ps 13:1).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Revelation 21:5And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
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Isaiah 65:17For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
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But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
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Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
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But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
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.