Psalm 95:5
The sea is His, for He made it [by His command];
And His hands formed the dry land.
Genesis 1:9-10
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.
Job 38:10-11
And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a wineskin;
He puts the deeps in storehouses.
Psalm 146:6
Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that is in them,
Who keeps truth and is faithful forever,
Proverbs 8:26
While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,
Or the first of the dust of the earth.
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—
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?]
Jonah 1:9
So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I [reverently] fear and worship the Lord, the God of heaven,
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The sea is his
Hands
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The sea is his
He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a wineskin;
He puts the deeps in storehouses.
And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
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?]
Hands
While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,
Or the first of the dust of the earth.