⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

⁵ For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;

²² Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

⁵ The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the dry land.

⁷ He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.

⁶ and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, that there shall be delay no longer:

⁹ And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

⁷ All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

²⁸ When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,

²⁹ When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

⁵ To him that by understanding made the heavens; For his lovingkindness `endureth' for ever:

⁶ To him that spread forth the earth above the waters; For his lovingkindness `endureth' for ever:

¹ The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.

² For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

⁸ Or `who' shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, `as if' it had issued out of the womb;

⁹ When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

¹⁰ And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

¹¹ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

¹⁰ He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.

⁵ Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.

⁶ Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

⁷ At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away

⁸ (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.

⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.

³ Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;

⁷ He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.