CONTINENTS

Passages on this topic · 32

• Genesis 1:9

  God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

• Genesis 1:10

  God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.

• Job 26:7

  He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

• Job 26:10

  He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

• Job 28:8

  The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

• Job 28:9

  He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

• Job 28:10

  He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

• Job 28:11

  He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

• Job 38:4

  “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

• Job 38:5

  Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

• Job 38:6

  Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

• Job 38:7

  when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

• Job 38:8

  “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

• Job 38:9

  when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

• Job 38:10

  marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

• Job 38:11

  and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’

• Job 38:12

  “Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

• Job 38:13

  that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

• Job 38:14

  It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.

• Job 38:15

  From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

• Job 38:16

  “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

• Job 38:17

  Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

• Job 38:18

  Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.

• Psalms 95:5

  The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

• Psalms 104:5

  He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

• Psalms 104:6

  You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

• Psalms 104:7

  At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

• Psalms 104:8

  The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

• Psalms 104:9

  You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

• Psalms 136:6

  To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

• Proverbs 8:29

  when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

• Proverbs 30:4

  Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?