For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
Parallel translations
- KJV For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
- BSB For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
- NKJV For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters.
- NASB For He has founded it upon the seas And established it upon the rivers.
- NLT For he laid the earth’s foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.
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- Jer 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’
- Gen 1:9–10God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
- Ps 136:6To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- Ps 104:5–6He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
- Job 38:4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
- Ps 33:6By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
- Jer 10:11–16“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”
- Job 38:8–11“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
- 2 Pet 3:5–7For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
- Ps 96:10Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
- Gen 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
- Ps 95:4In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.
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