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

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

And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters He called, Seas. And God saw that it was good.

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

and said, This far you may come, but no farther, and here your proud waves shall stay!?

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?

before He had made the earth and the fields, or the highest part of the dust of the world.