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 broke forth from the womb,
Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
Psalm 104:6
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
Proverbs 8:29
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
Jeremiah 5:22
Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

Until

Genesis 8:22
While the earth remains, 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 like the waters of Noah to 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 angry with you, nor rebuke you.

General references

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