description but lyric, not argumentation but poetry. The texts most closely paralleled to Gen. 1:1–2:4a are not scientific explorations but the Psalms which speak of God’s generosity and the world’s grateful response. Thus, the morning and evening shout for joy (Ps. 65:8). God waters, enriches, blesses, and crowns (vv. 9–11); and as a result, the hills are wrapped in joy (v. 12) and sing and shout for joy (v. 13). God’s movement toward creation is unceasing generosity. The response of creation is