“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,
And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.
Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the 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.
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,
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,
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