“Who shut up the sea behind doors(A)
    when it burst forth from the womb,(B)
when I made the clouds its garment
    and wrapped it in thick darkness,(C)
10 when I fixed limits for it(D)
    and set its doors and bars in place,(E)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;(F)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?(G)

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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?

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

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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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You covered it(A) with the watery depths(B) as with a garment;
    the waters stood(C) above the mountains.
But at your rebuke(D) the waters fled,
    at the sound of your thunder(E) they took to flight;
they flowed over the mountains,
    they went down into the valleys,
    to the place you assigned(F) for them.
You set a boundary(G) they cannot cross;
    never again will they cover the earth.

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Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

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29 when he gave the sea its boundary(A)
    so the waters would not overstep his command,(B)
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.(C)

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29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

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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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But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word(A) the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.(B)

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For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

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