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Who shut within doors the sea,
    when it burst forth from the womb,(A)

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“Who shut up the sea behind doors(A)
    when it burst forth from the womb,(B)

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Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

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[a]He gathered the waters of the sea as a mound;
    he sets the deep into storage vaults.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 33:7 The waters…as a mound: ancients sometimes attributed the power keeping the seas from overwhelming land to a primordial victory of the storm-god over personified Sea.

He gathers the waters(A) of the sea into jars[a];(B)
    he puts the deep into storehouses.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 33:7 Or sea as into a heap

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

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22 Should you not fear me—oracle of the Lord
    should you not tremble before me?
I made the sandy shore the sea’s limit,
    which by eternal decree it may not overstep.
Toss though it may, it is to no avail;
    though its billows roar, they cannot overstep.(A)

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22 Should you not fear(A) me?” declares the Lord.
    “Should you not tremble(B) in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,(C)
    an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
    they may roar,(D) but they cannot cross it.

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22 Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

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