Genesis 1:9
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9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.
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2 Peter 3:5
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5 They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.
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Jonah 1:9
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9 Jonah answered, “I am a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.”
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Jeremiah 5:22
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22 Have you no respect for me?
Why don’t you tremble in my presence?
I, the Lord, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline
as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross.
The waves may toss and roar,
but they can never pass the boundaries I set.
Psalm 95:5
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5 The sea belongs to him, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land, too.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
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7 Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.
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Proverbs 8:28-29
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28 I was there when he set the clouds above,
when he established springs deep in the earth.
29 I was there when he set the limits of the seas,
so they would not spread beyond their boundaries.
And when he marked off the earth’s foundations,
Psalm 33:7
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7 He assigned the sea its boundaries
and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs.
Psalm 104:5-9
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5 You placed the world on its foundation
so it would never be moved.
6 You clothed the earth with floods of water,
water that covered even the mountains.
7 At your command, the water fled;
at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.
8 Mountains rose and valleys sank
to the levels you decreed.
9 Then you set a firm boundary for the seas,
so they would never again cover the earth.
Job 26:10
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10 He created the horizon when he separated the waters;
he set the boundary between day and night.
Psalm 24:1-2
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Psalm 24
A psalm of David.
1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.
The world and all its people belong to him.
2 For he laid the earth’s foundation on the seas
and built it on the ocean depths.
Job 38:8-11
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8 “Who kept the sea inside its boundaries
as it burst from the womb,
9 and as I clothed it with clouds
and wrapped it in thick darkness?
10 For I locked it behind barred gates,
limiting its shores.
11 I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come.
Here your proud waves must stop!’
Revelation 10:6
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6 He swore an oath in the name of the one who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and everything in them, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it. He said, “There will be no more delay.
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Psalm 136:5-6
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5 Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully.
His faithful love endures forever.
6 Give thanks to him who placed the earth among the waters.
His faithful love endures forever.
Job 26:7
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7 God stretches the northern sky over empty space
and hangs the earth on nothing.
Psalm 104:3
New Living Translation
3 you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds.
You make the clouds your chariot;
you ride upon the wings of the wind.
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