The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
Parallel translations
- KJV The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
- BSB The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
- NKJV The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.
- NASB The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.
- NLT The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too.
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- 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.
- Prov 8:29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
- Ps 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
- Jonah 1:9He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
- Ps 146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
- Prov 8:26while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
- 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.’
- Job 38:10–11marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
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