58 Bible Verses about The Sea

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Psalm 77:19

In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

Psalm 146:6

Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that is in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,

Psalm 98:7

Roar doth the sea and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it.

Psalm 24:2

For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.

Psalm 46:2

Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas.

Psalm 104:25

This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There are moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great.

Exodus 14:21

And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and Jehovah causeth the sea to go on by a strong east wind all the night, and maketh the sea become dry ground, and the waters are cleaved,

Proverbs 8:29

In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

Psalm 8:8

Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!

Job 38:16

Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?

Psalm 66:6

He hath turned a sea to dry land, Through a river they pass over on foot, There do we rejoice in Him.

Deuteronomy 30:13

And it is not beyond the sea, -- saying, Who doth pass over for us beyond the sea, and doth take it for us, and doth cause us to hear it -- that we may do it?

Psalm 93:3

Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.

Revelation 10:5

And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven,

Haggai 2:6

For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet once more -- it is a little, And I am shaking the heavens and the earth, And the sea, and the dry land,

Job 38:8

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

Genesis 1:10

And God calleth to the dry land 'Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called 'Seas;' and God seeth that it is good.

Job 7:12

A sea -monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

Isaiah 60:5

Then thou seest, and hast become bright, And thine heart hath been afraid and enlarged, For turn unto thee doth the multitude of the sea, The forces of nations do come to thee.

Job 28:14

The deep hath said, 'It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, 'It is not with me.'

Isaiah 51:10

Art not Thou it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great deep? That hath made deep places of a sea A way for the passing of the redeemed?

Revelation 8:9

and die did the third of the creatures that are in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea -- they are removed.

Isaiah 43:16

Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving in the sea a way, And in the strong waters a path.

Exodus 15:4

Chariots of Pharaoh and his force He hath cast into the sea; And the choice of his captains Have sunk in the Red Sea!

Psalm 106:9

And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.

Revelation 4:6

and before the throne is a sea of glass like to crystal, and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind;

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.

Psalm 69:34

The heavens and earth do praise Him, Seas, and every moving thing in them.

Leviticus 11:9

This ye do eat of all which are in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

John 6:18

the sea also -- a great wind blowing -- was being raised,

Revelation 16:3

And the second messenger did pour out his vial to the sea, and there came blood as of one dead, and every living soul died in the sea.

Isaiah 51:15

And I am Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that is in the sea.

Revelation 5:13

and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and the all things in them, heard I saying, 'To Him who is sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, is the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the might -- to the ages of the ages!'

Matthew 13:1

And in that day Jesus, having gone forth from the house, was sitting by the sea,

Psalm 46:3

Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.

Hosea 1:10

and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye are not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;

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

Deuteronomy 11:24

every place on which the sole of your foot treadeth is yours; from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Phrat, even unto the farther sea is your border;

Zechariah 14:8

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Go forth do living waters from Jerusalem, Half of them unto the eastern sea, And half of them unto the western sea, In summer and in winter it is.

Numbers 34:6

'As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.

Deuteronomy 34:2

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

the Sea » Lakes often called

Deuteronomy 3:17

and the plain, and the Jordan, and the border, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the springs of Pisgah, at the sun -rising.

Matthew 8:32

and he saith to them, 'Go.' And having come forth, they went to the herd of the swine, and lo, the whole herd of the swine rushed down the steep, to the sea, and died in the waters,

Matthew 8:24

and lo, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves, but he was sleeping,

the Sea » The shore of, covered with sand

1 Kings 4:29

And God giveth wisdom to Solomon, and understanding, very much, and breadth of heart, as the sand that is on the edge of the sea;

Job 6:3

For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.

Psalm 78:27

And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas -- winged fowl,

the Sea » Called the » Deep

2 Corinthians 11:25

thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;

Job 41:31

He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment.

the Sea » Sailing on, dangerous

Acts 27:9

And much time being spent, and the sailing being now dangerous -- because of the fast also being already past -- Paul was admonishing,

2 Corinthians 11:26

journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

Acts 27:20

and neither sun nor stars appearing for more days, and not a little tempest lying upon us, thenceforth all hope was taken away of our being saved.

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Red sea

Exodus 13:18

and God turneth round the people the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea, and by fifties have the sons of Israel gone up from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:31

'And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;

Exodus 10:19

and Jehovah turneth a very strong sea wind, and it lifteth up the locust, and bloweth it into the Red Sea -- there hath not been left one locust in all the border of Egypt;

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

Genesis 49:13

Zebulun at a haven of the seas doth dwell, And he is for a haven of ships; And his side is unto Zidon.

Ezekiel 27:3

O dweller on the entrances of the sea, Merchant of the peoples unto many isles, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: O Tyre, thou -- thou hast said: I am the perfection of beauty.

Nahum 3:8

Art thou better than No-Ammon, That is dwelling among brooks? Waters she hath round about her, Whose bulwark is the sea, waters her wall.

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Sea of galilee

Matthew 4:18

And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea -- for they were fishers --

Matthew 8:32

and he saith to them, 'Go.' And having come forth, they went to the herd of the swine, and lo, the whole herd of the swine rushed down the steep, to the sea, and died in the waters,

John 6:1

After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (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

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

Job 38:10-11

And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors, And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

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

Revelation 15:2

and I saw as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who do gain the victory over the beast, and his image, and his mark, and the number of his name, standing by the sea of the glass, having harps of God,

Revelation 4:6

and before the throne is a sea of glass like to crystal, and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind;

the Sea » Illustrative » Of heavy afflictions

Lamentations 2:13

What do I testify to thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea is thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?

the Sea » Replenished by rivers

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.

Ezekiel 47:8

And he saith unto me, 'These waters are going forth unto the east circuit, and have gone down unto the desert, and have entered the sea; unto the sea they are brought forth, and the waters have been healed.

the Sea » Great rivers often called

Jeremiah 51:36

Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.

Isaiah 11:15

And Jehovah hath devoted to destruction The tongue of the sea of Egypt, And hath waved His hand over the river, In the terror of his wind, And hath smitten it at the seven streams, And hath caused men to tread it with shoes.

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

Genesis 14:3

All these have been joined together unto the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea;

Numbers 34:12

and the border hath gone down to the Jordan, and its outgoings have been at the Salt Sea; this is for you the land by its borders 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 it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

Jeremiah 6:23

Bow and javelin they take hold of, Fierce it is, and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea doth sound, And on horses they ride, set in array as a man of war, Against thee, O daughter of Zion.

the Sea » Passed over in ships

Psalm 104:26

There do ships go: leviathan, That Thou hast formed to play in it.

the Sea » The waves of » Raised upon high

Psalm 93:3

Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.

the Sea » Made to glorify God

Psalm 69:34

The heavens and earth do praise Him, Seas, and every moving thing in them.

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

Ezra 3:7

and they give money to hewers and to artificers, and food, and drink, and oil to Zidonians and to Tyrians, to bring in cedar-trees from Lebanon unto the sea of Joppa, according to the permission of Cyrus king of Persia concerning them.

Exodus 23:21

be watchful because of his presence, and hearken to his voice, rebel not against him, for he beareth not with your transgression, for My name is in his heart;

the Sea » The waves of » Mighty

Acts 27:41

and having fallen into a place of two seas, they ran the ship aground, and the fore-part, indeed, having stuck fast, did remain immoveable, but the hinder-part was broken by the violence of the waves.

the Sea » God » Dries up, by his rebuke

Nahum 1:4

He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing are Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon is languishing.

Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.

the Sea » Of immense extent

Psalm 104:25

This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There are moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great.

the Sea » The waves of » Tumultuous

Jude 1:13

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

the Sea » Commercial nations » Derived great wealth from

Deuteronomy 33:19

Peoples to the mountain they call, There they sacrifice righteous sacrifices; For the abundance of the seas they suck, And hidden things hidden in the sand.

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

Revelation 20:13

and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works;

the Sea » Rivers supplied by exhalations from

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.

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

Genesis 1:20-22

And God saith, 'Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.' And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that it is good. And God blesseth them, saying, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

the Sea » Inhabited by innumerable creatures great and small

Psalm 104:25-26

This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There are moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great. There do ships go: leviathan, That Thou hast formed to play in it.

the Sea » The renewed earth shall be without

the Sea » Raised by the wind

Psalm 107:25-26

And He saith, and appointeth a tempest, And it lifteth up its billows, They go up to the heavens, they go down to the depths, Their soul in evil is melted.

the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Sea of jazer

Jeremiah 48:32

With the weeping of Jazer, I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah, Thy branches have passed over a sea, Unto the sea of Jazer they have come, On thy summer fruits, and on thy harvest, A spoiler hath fallen.

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

Ezekiel 26:3-4

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, O Tyre, And have caused to come up against thee many nations, As the sea causeth its billows to come up. And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.

the Sea » The waves of » Multitudinous

Jeremiah 51:42

Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.

the Sea » The waves of » Tossed to and fro

Jeremiah 5:22

Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.

the Sea » Numerous islands in

Ezekiel 26:18

Now they tremble, is it not the day of thy fall? Troubled have been the isles that are in the sea, at thine outgoing.

the Sea » Sand the barrier of

Jeremiah 5:22

Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.

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

Isaiah 48:18

O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

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

Isaiah 57:20

And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.

the Sea » Called the » Great and wide sea

Psalm 104:25

This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There are moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great.

the Sea » God » Measures the waters of

Isaiah 40:12

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

the Sea » The gathering together of the waters originally called

Genesis 1:10

And God calleth to the dry land 'Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called 'Seas;' and God seeth that it is good.

the Sea » Caused to foam by leviathan

Job 41:31-32

He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment. After him he causeth a path to shine, One thinketh the deep to be hoary.

the Sea » The wonders of God seen in

the Sea » Called the » Great waters

Psalm 77:19

In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

the Sea » God » Does what he pleases in

Psalm 135:6

All that Jehovah pleased He hath done, In the heavens and in earth, In the seas and all deep places,

the Sea » Of great depth

Psalm 68:22

The Lord said: 'From Bashan I bring back, I bring back from the depths of the sea.

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

Acts 27:27

And when the fourteenth night came -- we being borne up and down in the Adria -- toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them;

the Sea » God » Founded the earth upon

Psalm 24:2

For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.

the Sea » God » Shakes, by his word

Haggai 2:6

For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet once more -- it is a little, And I am shaking 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

In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

the Sea » The clouds the garment of

Job 38:9

In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

Water » Collected in » the Sea

Genesis 1:9-10

And God saith, 'Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so. And God calleth to the dry land 'Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called 'Seas;' and God seeth that it is good.

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In The Heart Of The Sea

Ezekiel 26:19

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: In my making thee a city wasted, Like cities that have not been inhabited, In bringing up against thee the deep, Then covered thee have the great waters.

Limits For The Sea

Job 38:10-11

And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

The Sea Divided

Nehemiah 9:11

And the sea Thou hast cleaved before them, and they pass over into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and their pursuers Thou hast cast into the depths, as a stone, into the strong waters.

The Sea Stilled

Jonah 1:11

And they say unto him, 'What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

The Sea Stirred Up

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

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