8 Bible Verses about Continents
Most Relevant Verses
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.
He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed thereby. He puts forth his hand upon the flinty rock. He overturns the mountains by the roots. He cuts out channels among the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.read more.
He binds the streams that they not trickle. And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.
Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding. Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it? Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone of itread more.
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb, when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors, and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed? Have thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [and] caused the dayspring to know its place that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? It is changed as clay under the seal, and [all things] stand forth as a garment. And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm is broken. Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.
who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be moved forever. Thou covered it with the deep as with a vesture. The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled. At the voice of thy thunder they hastened away.read more.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou had founded for them. Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
And to Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days the earth was divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.