Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

He gathered the oceans into a single place; he put the deep water into storehouses.

New American Standard Bible

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

King James Version

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Holman Bible

He gathers the waters of the sea into a heap;
He puts the depths into storehouses.

A Conservative Version

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in store-houses.

American Standard Version

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.

Amplified


He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a wineskin;
He puts the deeps in storehouses.

Bible in Basic English

He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

Darby Translation

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; he layeth up the deeps in storehouses.

Julia Smith Translation

He heaped up the waters of the sea as a mound: he gave the depths into storehouses.

King James 2000

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[He] gathered the waters of the sea like a heap. [He] put [the] deeps in storehouses.

Modern King James verseion

He gathered the waters of the sea like a heap, setting the depths in storehouses.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He gathereth the waters of the sea together, as it were upon a heap, and layeth up the deep, as in a treasure-house.

NET Bible

He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.

New Heart English Bible

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

The Emphasized Bible

Who gathered as into a skin-bottle the waters of the sea, Delivering, into treasuries, the roaring deeps.

Webster

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: he layeth up the depth in store-houses.

World English Bible

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Youngs Literal Translation

Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּנס 
Kanac 
Usage: 11

of the sea
ים 
Yam 
Usage: 396

together as an heap
נד 
Ned 
Usage: 6

he layeth up
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

the depth
תּהם תּהום 
T@howm 
Usage: 36

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Character And Creation

6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made; all the heavenly bodies by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathered the oceans into a single place; he put the deep water into storehouses. 8 Let all the world fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him;

Cross References

Exodus 15:8

By the breath of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing waters stood up like a hill, the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

Joshua 3:16

the water flowing downstream from above stood still in a single location, a great distance away at Adam, a city near Zarethan. The water that flowed south toward the sea in the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.

Joshua 3:13

When the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of the whole earth, touch the water in the Jordan River, the water that feeds the Jordan will be cut off from above and they'll stand still in a single location."

Genesis 1:9-10

Then God said, "Let the water beneath the sky come together into one area, and let dry ground appear!" And that is what happened:

Job 26:10

He has delimited a boundary over the surface of the oceans as a limit between light and darkness.

Job 38:8-11

"Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb,

Psalm 78:13

He divided the sea so that they were able to cross; he caused the water to stand in a single location.

Psalm 104:6-9

You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

Proverbs 8:29

when he set a boundary for the sea so the waters would not exceed his limits, when he marked out the foundations of the earth.

Jeremiah 5:22

"You don't fear me, do you?' declares the LORD. "You don't tremble before me, do you? I'm the one who put the sand as a boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot cross. Though the waves toss, they cannot prevail against it, though they roar, they cannot cross it.'

Habakkuk 3:15

You rode on the sea with your horses, even riding the crested waves of mighty waters.

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