58 Bible Verses about The Sea

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Psalm 77:19

Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.

Psalm 146:6

Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; Who keepeth truth for ever;

Psalm 98:7

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein;

Psalm 24:2

For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

Psalm 46:2

Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;

Psalm 104:25

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.

Exodus 14:21

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Proverbs 8:29

When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

Psalm 8:8

The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

Job 38:16

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

Psalm 66:6

He turned the sea into dry land; They went through the river on foot: There did we rejoice in him.

Deuteronomy 30:13

Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?

Psalm 93:3

The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.

Revelation 10:5

And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven,

Haggai 2:6

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

Job 38:8

Or who'shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

Genesis 1:10

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

Isaiah 60:5

Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.

Job 28:14

The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me.

Isaiah 51:10

Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

Revelation 8:9

and there died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, even they that had life; and the third part of the ships was destroyed.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Isaiah 43:16

Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

Exodus 15:4

Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea; And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

Psalm 106:9

He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.

Revelation 4:6

and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like a crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

Psalm 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moveth therein.

Leviticus 11:9

These may ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may ye eat.

John 6:18

And the sea was rising by reason of a great wind that blew.

Revelation 16:3

And the second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living soul died, even the things that were in the sea.

Isaiah 51:15

For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

Revelation 5:13

And every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things are in them, heard I saying, Unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever.

Matthew 13:1

On that day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.

Psalm 46:3

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

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the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Mediterranean or great sea

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.

Zechariah 14:8

And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

Numbers 34:6

And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof : this shall be your west border.

Deuteronomy 34:2

and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the hinder sea,

the Sea » Lakes often called

Deuteronomy 3:17

the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border thereof , from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Matthew 8:32

And he said unto them, Go. And they came out, and went into the swine: and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and perished in the waters.

Matthew 8:24

And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

the Sea » The shore of, covered with sand

Genesis 22:17

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.

1 Kings 4:29

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

Job 6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

Psalm 78:27

He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:

the Sea » Called the » Deep

2 Corinthians 11:25

Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;

Job 41:31

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

the Sea » Sailing on, dangerous

Acts 27:9

And when much time was spent, and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast was now already gone by, Paul admonished them,

2 Corinthians 11:26

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Acts 27:20

And when neither sun nor stars shone upon us for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away.

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Red sea

Exodus 13:18

but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:31

And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

Exodus 10:19

And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.

the Sea » Commercial nations » Often built cities on the borders of

Genesis 49:13

Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; And he shall be for a haven of ships; And his border shall be upon Sidon.

Ezekiel 27:3

and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea, that art the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in beauty.

Nahum 3:8

Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Sea of galilee

Matthew 4:18

And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers.

Matthew 8:32

And he said unto them, Go. And they came out, and went into the swine: and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and perished in the waters.

John 6:1

After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

the Sea » God » Stills, by his power

the Sea » God » Created

the Sea » God » Set bounds to, by a perpetual decree

Job 38:8

Or who'shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

Job 38:10-11

And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

the Sea » Illustrative » (smooth as glass,) of the peace of heaven

Revelation 15:2

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire; and them that come off victorious from the beast, and from his image, and from the number of his name, standing by the sea of glass, having harps of God.

Revelation 4:6

and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like a crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

the Sea » Illustrative » Of heavy afflictions

Lamentations 2:13

What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

the Sea » Replenished by rivers

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

Ezekiel 47:8

Then said he unto me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea'shall the waters go which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.

the Sea » Great rivers often called

Jeremiah 51:36

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

Isaiah 11:15

And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod.

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Salt or dead sea

Genesis 14:3

All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

Numbers 34:12

and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.

the Sea » Illustrative » (covered with waters,) of the diffusion of spiritual knowledge over the earth in the latter days

the Sea » Illustrative » (roaring,) of hostile armies

Isaiah 5:30

And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

Jeremiah 6:23

They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

the Sea » Passed over in ships

Psalm 104:26

There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.

the Sea » The waves of » Raised upon high

Psalm 107:25

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.

Psalm 93:3

The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.

the Sea » Made to glorify God

Psalm 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moveth therein.

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Sea of joppa or sea of the philistines

Ezra 3:7

They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

Exodus 23:21

Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him.

the Sea » The waves of » Mighty

Acts 27:41

But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves .

the Sea » God » Dries up, by his rebuke

Nahum 1:4

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

the Sea » Of immense extent

Psalm 104:25

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.

the Sea » The waves of » Tumultuous

Jude 1:13

Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved forever.

the Sea » Commercial nations » Derived great wealth from

Deuteronomy 33:19

They shall call the peoples unto the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.

the Sea » Shall give up its dead at the last day

Revelation 20:13

And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

the Sea » Rivers supplied by exhalations from

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

the Sea » God » Made the birds and fishes out of

Genesis 1:20-22

And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

the Sea » Inhabited by innumerable creatures great and small

Psalm 104:25-26

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts. There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.

the Sea » The renewed earth shall be without

the Sea » Raised by the wind

Psalm 107:25-26

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Sea of jazer

Jeremiah 48:32

With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.

the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of devastating armies

Ezekiel 26:3-4

therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

the Sea » The waves of » Multitudinous

Jeremiah 51:42

The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

the Sea » The waves of » Tossed to and fro

Jeremiah 5:22

Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

the Sea » Numerous islands in

Ezekiel 26:18

Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure.

the Sea » Sand the barrier of

Jeremiah 5:22

Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of righteousness

Isaiah 48:18

Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

the Sea » Illustrative » (trouble,) of the wicked

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

the Sea » Called the » Great and wide sea

Psalm 104:25

Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.

the Sea » God » Measures the waters of

Isaiah 40:12

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

the Sea » The gathering together of the waters originally called

Genesis 1:10

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

the Sea » Caused to foam by leviathan

Job 41:31-32

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.

the Sea » The wonders of God seen in

the Sea » Called the » Great waters

Psalm 77:19

Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.

the Sea » God » Does what he pleases in

Psalm 135:6

Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, that hath he done, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

the Sea » Of great depth

Psalm 68:22

The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring them again from the depths of the sea;

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » The adriatic or sea of adria

Acts 27:27

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in the'sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some country:

the Sea » God » Founded the earth upon

Psalm 24:2

For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

the Sea » God » Shakes, by his word

Haggai 2:6

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of the unsteady

the Sea » Darkness the swaddling band of

Job 38:9

When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

the Sea » The clouds the garment of

Job 38:9

When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

Water » Collected in » the Sea

Genesis 1:9-10

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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Expanse Of The Sea

Psalm 139:9

If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

In The Heart Of The Sea

Ezekiel 26:19

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee;

Limits For The Sea

Job 38:10-11

And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

The Sea Divided

Nehemiah 9:11

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

The Sea Stilled

Jonah 1:11

Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

The Sea Stirred Up

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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