Job 38:8
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When it burst forth and went out of the womb;
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
Jeremiah 5:22
‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.
‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?
For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.
Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];
Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].
[Is not such a God to be feared?]
Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a wineskin;
He puts the deeps in storehouses.
Proverbs 8:29
When He set for the sea its boundary
So that the waters would not transgress [the boundaries set by] His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth—
Job 38:10
And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
Psalm 104:8-9
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.
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And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a wineskin;
He puts the deeps in storehouses.
You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.
When He set for the sea its boundary
So that the waters would not transgress [the boundaries set by] His command,
When He marked out the foundations of the earth—
‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.
‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?
For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.
Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];
Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].
[Is not such a God to be feared?]
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“Out of whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
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“Out of whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.