You (A)covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.
At Your (B)rebuke they fled,
At the (C)sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the (D)place which You established for them.
You set a (E)boundary that they may not pass over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.

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22 ‘Do you not (A)fear Me?’ declares the Lord.
‘Do you not tremble in My presence?
For I have (B)placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it.
Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

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For [a]when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that (A)by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was (B)formed out of water and by water,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:5 Or they are willfully ignorant of this fact, that