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
Or who'shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
Psalm 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
Psalm 104:6
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.
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;
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.

Until

Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime 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; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

General references

Genesis 1:9
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.

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