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)
Genesis 1:9-10
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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) 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.(B)
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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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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)
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)
Proverbs 8:26
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26 when he had not yet made earth and fields[a]
or the world’s first bits of soil.
Footnotes
- 8.26 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 146:6
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6 who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them;
who keeps faith forever;(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.
Job 38:10-11
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10 and prescribed bounds for it,
and set bars and doors,(A)
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?(B)
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