When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding he established the heavens.
When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.
At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away
Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; Who keepeth truth for ever;
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.