when I broke My limit for it, and set bars and doors;

Then God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: thus.

He gathers the waters of the sea like a heap, and designates the depths in storehouses.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they may not return to cover the earth.

when He gave to the sea its limit, that the waters should not pass beyond His command; when He engraved the foundations of the earth,

Do you not fear Me? says Jehovah. Will you not tremble at My presence, I who have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a perpetual decree, so that it cannot pass it? And though its waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it?