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)
Proverbs 8:29
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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 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)
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)
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.
Isaiah 54:9-10
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9 This is like the days of Noah to me:
Just as I swore that the waters of Noah
would never again go over the earth,
so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
and will not rebuke you.(A)
10 For the mountains may depart
and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.(B)
Psalm 104:6-9
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6 You cover it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.(A)
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.(B)
9 You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.(C)
Genesis 8:22
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22 As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night
shall not cease.”(A)
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