And God said, (A)“Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

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For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth (A)was formed out of water and through water (B)by the word of God,

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And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear (A)the Lord, the God of heaven, (B)who made the sea and the dry land.”

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The sea is his, for (A)he made it,
    and his hands formed (B)the dry land.

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22 (A)Do you not fear me? declares the Lord.
    Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand (B)as the boundary for the sea,
    a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
    though (C)they roar, they cannot pass over it.

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All (A)streams run to the sea,
    but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
    there they flow again.

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He gathers the waters of the sea as (A)a heap;
    he (B)puts the deeps in storehouses.

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28 when he (A)made firm the skies above,
    when he established[a] the fountains of the deep,
29 when he (B)assigned to the sea its (C)limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out (D)the foundations of the earth,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:28 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

10 He has inscribed (A)a circle on the face of the waters
    at the boundary between light and darkness.

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He (A)set the earth on its foundations,
    so that it should never be moved.
You (B)covered it with the deep as with a garment;
    the waters stood above the mountains.
At (C)your rebuke they fled;
    at (D)the sound of your thunder they (E)took to flight.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
    to the place that you (F)appointed for them.
You set (G)a boundary that they may not pass,
    so that they (H)might not again cover the earth.

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The King of Glory

A Psalm of David.

24 (A)The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof,[a]
    the world and those who dwell therein,
for he has (B)founded it upon (C)the seas
    and established it upon the rivers.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 24:1 Or and all that fills it

“Or who (A)shut in the sea with doors
    when it burst out from the womb,
when I made clouds its garment
    and (B)thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and prescribed (C)limits for it
    and set bars and doors,
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
    and here shall your (D)proud waves be stayed’?

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and swore by (A)him who lives forever and ever, (B)who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,

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to him who (A)by understanding (B)made the heavens,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;
to him who (C)spread out the earth (D)above the waters,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;

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He (A)lays the beams of his (B)chambers on the waters;
he makes (C)the clouds his chariot;
    he rides on (D)the wings of the wind;

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He (A)stretches out the north over (B)the void
    and hangs the earth on nothing.

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