Genesis 1:9
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9 And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.(A)
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2 Peter 3:5
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5 They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,(A)
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Jonah 1:9
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9 “I am a Hebrew,” he replied. “I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”(A)
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Psalm 95:5
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5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and the dry land, which his hands have formed.(A)
Jeremiah 5:22
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22 Do you not fear me? says the Lord;
Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
though they roar, they cannot pass over it.(A)
Ecclesiastes 1:7
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7 All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they continue to flow.
Psalm 33:7
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7 He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
he put the deeps in storehouses.
Proverbs 8:28-29
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28 when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
29 when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,(A)
Job 26:10
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10 He has described a circle on the face of the waters,
at the boundary between light and darkness.(A)
Psalm 104:5-9
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5 You set the earth on its foundations,
so that it shall never be shaken.(A)
6 You cover it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.(B)
7 At your rebuke they flee;
at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.
8 They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys,
to the place that you appointed for them.(C)
9 You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.(D)
Psalm 24:1-2
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Psalm 24
Entrance into the Temple
Of David. A Psalm.
1 The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
the world, and those who live in it,(A)
2 for he has founded it on the seas
and established it on the rivers.
Job 38:8-11
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8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,(A)
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,(B)
10 and prescribed bounds for it,
and set bars and doors,(C)
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?(D)
Revelation 10:6
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6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever,
who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it: “There will be no more delay,(A)
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Psalm 136:5-6
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5 who by understanding made the heavens,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)
6 who spread out the earth on the waters,
for his steadfast love endures forever;(B)
Psalm 104:3
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3 you set the beams of your[a] chambers on the waters;
you make the clouds your[b] chariot;
you ride on the wings of the wind;(A)
Job 26:7
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