58 Bible Verses about The Sea
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More than the sounds of many waters,
More than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.
Your way [of escape for Your people] was through the sea,
And Your paths through the great waters,
And Your footprints were not traceable.
Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that is in them,
Who keeps truth and is faithful forever,
Let the sea thunder and roar, and all the things it contains,
The world and those who dwell in it.
For He has founded it upon the seas
And established it upon the streams and the rivers.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains be shaken and slip into the heart of the seas,
There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Creatures both small and great.
“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.
The [Red] Sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back.
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.
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—
He turned the sea into dry land;
They crossed through the river on foot;
There we rejoiced in Him.
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?’
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.
Then the angel whom I had seen standing on the sea and the land raised his right hand [to swear an oath] to heaven,
For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When it burst forth and went out of the womb;
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.
“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?
“Then you will see and be radiant,
And your heart will tremble [with joy] and rejoice
Because the abundant wealth of the seas will be brought to you,
The wealth of the nations will come to you.
Was it not You who dried up the [Red] Sea,
The waters of the great deep,
Who made the depths of the sea a pathway
For the redeemed to cross over?
and a third of the living creatures that were in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
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.
Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.”
Therefore the land [continually] mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes [in tragic suffering]
Together with the animals of the open country and the birds of the heavens;
Even the fish of the sea disappear.
This is what the Lord says,
He who makes a way through the sea
And a path through the mighty waters,
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea;
His chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.
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].
All the rivers flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
There they flow again.
Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas and everything that moves in them.
‘These you may eat, whatever is in the water: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, these you may eat;
The sea was getting rough and rising high because a strong wind was blowing.
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.
And all [of them] were baptized into Moses [into his safekeeping as their leader] in the cloud and in the sea;
For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of hosts is His name.
In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent
With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy],
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
And I heard every created thing that is in heaven or on earth or under the earth [in Hades, the realm of the dead] or on the sea, and everything that is in them, saying [together],
“To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb (Christ), be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.”
That same day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting beside the sea [of Galilee].
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains tremble at its roaring. Selah.
Yet the number of the sons of Israel
Shall be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”
Bible Theasaurus
From Thematic Bible
the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Mediterranean or great sea
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall become yours; your territory shall be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea (the Mediterranean).
And in that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea (Dead Sea) and half of them to the western sea (the Mediterranean); it will be in summer as well as in winter.
‘As the western boundary you shall have the Great [Mediterranean] Sea and its coastline. This shall be your western boundary.
and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah to the western sea (Mediterranean Sea),
the Sea » Lakes often called
the Arabah also, with the Jordan as its boundary, from Chinnereth (the Sea of Galilee) as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea (Dead Sea), at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
The men wondered in amazement, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”
And He said to them,
And suddenly a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
the Sea » The shore of, covered with sand
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies [as conquerors].
Now God gave Solomon [exceptional] wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand of the seashore.
“For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
Therefore my words have been incoherent,
He rained meat upon them like the dust,
And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.
the Sea » Called the » Deep
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift on the sea;
“He makes the deep water boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment.
They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.
the Sea » Sailing on, dangerous
Now much time had been lost, and
many times on journeys, [exposed to] danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own countrymen, danger from the Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger on the sea, danger among those posing as believers;
Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm kept raging about us, from then on all hope of our being saved was [growing worse and worse and] gradually abandoned.
the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Red sea
But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the
I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines (the Mediterranean), and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will hand over the residents of the land to you, and you shall drive them out before you.
So the Lord shifted the wind to a violent west wind which lifted up the locusts and drove them into the
the Sea » Commercial nations » Often built cities on the borders of
“Zebulun shall dwell at the seashore;
And he shall be a haven (landing place) for ships,
And his flank shall be toward Sidon.
and say to Tyre, who lives at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
Are you better than
Which was situated by the waters of the Nile,
With water surrounding her,
Whose defense was the sea (the Nile),
Whose wall consisted of the sea?
the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Sea of galilee
As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He noticed two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
And He said to them,
After this, Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or
the Sea » God » Stills, by his power
Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples,
the Sea » God » Created
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy [that is, set it apart for His purposes].
“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are only men of the same nature as you, bringing the good news to you, so that you turn from these useless and meaningless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything that is in them.
the Sea » God » Set bounds to, by a perpetual decree
“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters
At the boundary between light and darkness.
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When it burst forth and went out of the womb;
And marked for it My appointed boundary and set bars and doors, And said, Thus far shall you come and no farther; and here shall your proud waves be stayed?
the Sea » Illustrative » (smooth as glass,) of the peace of heaven
Then I saw something like a sea or large expanse of glass mixed with fire, and those who were victorious over the beast and over his image and over the number corresponding to his name were standing on the sea or large expanse of glass, holding harps of God [worshiping Him].
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
the Sea » Illustrative » Of heavy afflictions
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you.
When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched,
Nor will the flame burn you.
How shall I console you?
To what shall I compare you,
O Daughter of Jerusalem?
With what shall I compare you, so that I may comfort you,
O Virgin Daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea;
Who can heal you?
the Sea » Replenished by rivers
All the rivers flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
There they flow again.
Then he said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah (the Jordan Valley); then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the Dead Sea shall be healed and become fresh.
the Sea » Great rivers often called
Therefore thus says the Lord,
And take full vengeance for you;
I will dry up her sea and great reservoir
And make her fountain dry.
And the Lord will utterly destroy
The tongue of the
And with His scorching wind
He will wave His hand over the River;
He will strike and divide it into seven channels
And make [it possible for] people [to] walk over in sandals.
the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Salt or dead sea
All of these [kings] joined together [as allies] in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Sea of Salt).
and the [eastern] boundary shall go down to the Jordan [River], and its limit shall be at the Salt (Dead) Sea. This shall be your land according to its boundaries all around.’”
the Sea » Illustrative » (covered with waters,) of the diffusion of spiritual knowledge over the earth in the latter days
“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.
They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.
the Sea » Illustrative » (roaring,) of hostile armies
And in that day they will roar against them (Judah) like the roaring of the sea.
And if one looks to the land, in fact, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light will be darkened by its clouds.
“They seize bow and spear;
They are cruel and inhuman and have no mercy.
Their voice sounds like the roaring sea;
They ride [in formation] on horses,
Arrayed as a man for battle
Against you, O Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem)!”
the Sea » Passed over in ships
There the ships [of the sea] sail,
And Leviathan [the sea monster], which You have formed to play there.
the Sea » The waves of » Raised upon high
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.
the Sea » Made to glorify God
Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas and everything that moves in them.
the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Sea of joppa or sea of the philistines
They gave money to the masons and to the carpenters, and gave food, drink, and [olive] oil to the people from Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the seaport of Joppa, in accordance with the authorization they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
Be on your guard before Him, listen to and obey His voice; do not be rebellious toward Him or provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgression, since My Name (authority) is in Him.
the Sea » The waves of » Mighty
More than the sounds of many waters,
More than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.
But striking a
the Sea » God » Dries up, by his rebuke
He rebukes the sea and dries it up;
He dries up all the rivers [illustrating His judgment].
Bashan [on the east] and [Mount] Carmel [on the west] wither,
And [in the north] the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
“Why, when I came, was there no man [to greet Me]?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Is My hand really so short that it cannot redeem [My servants]?
Or have I no power to rescue?
Listen carefully, with My rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers into a desert;
Their fish stink because there is no water
And die of thirst.
the Sea » Of immense extent
There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Creatures both small and great.
the Sea » The waves of » Tumultuous
wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.
the Sea » Commercial nations » Derived great wealth from
“They will call the peoples to the mountain (Mount Carmel);
There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness;
For they will draw out the abundance of the seas,
And the hidden treasures of the sand.”
the Sea » Shall give up its dead at the last day
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 Sea » Rivers supplied by exhalations from
All the rivers flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
There they flow again.
the Sea » God » Made the birds and fishes out of
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly and swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open expanse of the heavens. God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable) and He approved it. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
the Sea » Inhabited by innumerable creatures great and small
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, in which are swarms of innumerable creeping things, creatures both small and great. There go the ships of the sea, and Leviathan (the sea monster), which You have formed to sport in it.
the Sea » The renewed earth shall be without
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
the Sea » Raised by the wind
For He commands and raises up the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of the sea. [Those aboard] mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the deeps; their courage melts away because of their plight.
the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » Sea of jazer
“O vines of Sibmah, I will weep for you
More than the weeping of Jazer [over its ruins and wasted vineyards].
Your tendrils [of influence] stretched across the sea,
Reaching [even] to the sea of Jazer.
The destroyer has fallen
On your summer fruits and your [season’s] crop of grapes.
the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of devastating armies
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you as the sea mounts up by its waves. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her and make her bare like the top of a rock.
the Sea » The waves of » Multitudinous
“The sea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
the Sea » The waves of » Tossed to and fro
‘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?]
the Sea » Numerous islands in
‘Now the coastlands will tremble
On the day of your fall;
Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea
Will be terrified at your departure.’”
the Sea » Sand the barrier of
‘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?]
the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of righteousness
“Oh, that you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your peace and prosperity would have been like a [flowing] river,
And your righteousness [the holiness and purity of the nation] like the [abundant] waves of the sea.
the Sea » Illustrative » (trouble,) of the wicked
But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
For it cannot be quiet,
And its waters toss up mire and mud.
the Sea » Called the » Great and wide sea
There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Creatures both small and great.
the Sea » God » Measures the waters of
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
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?
the Sea » The gathering together of the waters originally called
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 Sea » Caused to foam by leviathan
He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a [foaming] pot of ointment. [His swift darting] makes a shining track behind him; one would think the deep to be hoary [with foam].
the Sea » The wonders of God seen in
They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.
the Sea » Called the » Great waters
Your way [of escape for Your people] was through the sea,
And Your paths through the great waters,
And Your footprints were not traceable.
the Sea » God » Does what he pleases in
Whatever the Lord pleases, He does,
In the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all deeps—
the Sea » Of great depth
The Lord said, “I will bring your enemies back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea,
the Sea » Seas mentioned in scripture » The adriatic or sea of adria
The fourteenth night had come and we were drifting and being driven about in the
the Sea » God » Founded the earth upon
For He has founded it upon the seas
And established it upon the streams and the rivers.
the Sea » God » Shakes, by his word
For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of the unsteady
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.
the Sea » Darkness the swaddling band of
the Sea » The clouds the garment of
Water » Collected in » the Sea
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected into one place [of standing], and let the dry land appear. And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the accumulated waters He called Seas. And God saw that this was good (fitting, admirable) and He approved it.
Topics on The Sea
Creation Of The Seas
Exodus 20:11For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy [that is, set it apart for His purposes].
Expanse Of The Sea
Psalm 139:9
If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
In The Heart Of The Sea
Ezekiel 26:19For thus says the Lord God, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and great waters cover you,
Limits For The Sea
Job 38:10-11
And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],
The Sea Divided
Nehemiah 9:11
“You divided the sea before them,
So that they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land;
You hurled their pursuers into the depths,
Like a stone into mighty and raging waters.
The Sea Stilled
Jonah 1:11Then they said to him, “What should we do to you, so that the sea will become calm for us?”—for the sea was becoming more and more violent.
The Sea Stirred Up
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Things Like The Sea
Psalm 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God,
Your judgments are like the great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.