50 Bible Verses about The Ocean

The sea is His, for He made it [by His command];
And His hands formed the dry land.

Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains tremble at its roaring. Selah.

Let the sea thunder and roar, and all the things it contains,
The world and those who dwell in it.

All the rivers flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
There they flow again.

More than the sounds of many waters,
More than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.

Praise the Lord from the earth,
Sea monsters and all deeps;

There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Creatures both small and great.

“Have you entered and explored the springs of the sea
Or [have you] walked in the recesses of the deep?

Your way [of escape for Your people] was through the sea,
And Your paths through the great waters,
And Your footprints were not traceable.

But he must ask [for wisdom] in faith, without doubting [God’s willingness to help], for the one who doubts is like a billowing surge of the sea that is blown about and tossed by the wind.

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—

You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.

He hushed the storm to a gentle whisper,
So that the waves of the sea were still.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains be shaken and slip into the heart of the seas,

and a third of the living creatures that were in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

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.

Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and obey it?’

“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When it burst forth and went out of the womb;

The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

The [Red] Sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back.

“The deep says, ‘It is not in me’;
And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

He shall again have compassion on us;
He will subdue and tread underfoot our wickedness [destroying sin’s power].
Yes, You will cast all our sins
Into the depths of the sea.

For He has founded it upon the seas
And established it upon the streams and the rivers.

They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens with a span [of the hand],
And calculated the dust of the earth with a measure,
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?

God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that this was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it.

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a corpse [foul and disgusting]; and every living thing in the sea died.

Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;

“But [the time is coming when] the earth shall be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.

Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that is in them,
Who keeps truth and is faithful forever,

For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of hosts is His name.

God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it.

“It is longer in measure [and scope] than the earth,
And broader than the sea.

This is what the Lord says,

He who makes a way through the sea
And a path through the mighty waters,

Then the angel whom I had seen standing on the sea and the land raised his right hand [to swear an oath] to heaven,

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away (vanished), and there is no longer any sea.

“The sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.

If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

Why do You make men like the fish of the sea,
Like reptiles and creeping things that have no ruler [and are helpless against their enemies]?

He reached from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.

and in front of the throne there was something like a sea or large expanse of glass, like [the clearest] crystal. In the center and around the throne were four living creatures who were full of eyes in front and behind [seeing everything and knowing everything that is around them].

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all that night and turned the seabed into dry land, and the waters were divided.

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades (the realm of the dead) surrendered the dead who were in them; and they were judged and sentenced, every one according to their deeds.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.

You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.

And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?

For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,
Which lifted up the waves of the sea.

Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas and everything that moves in them.