Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

General references

Bible References

Compassed

Job 38:8
And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
Psalm 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; he layeth up the deeps in storehouses.
Psalm 104:6
Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:
Proverbs 8:29
when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Jeremiah 5:22
Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Until

Genesis 8:22
Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Isaiah 54:9
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me, since I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth: so have I sworn that I will no more be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

General references

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.