He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses.

Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry [land] appear"; and it was so.

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 fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors;

When I said, 'This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!'

When He assigned to the sea its limit, So that the waters would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth,

Do you not fear Me?' says the LORD. 'Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, Yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.

While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, Or the primeval dust of the world.