then over us would have gone the raging waters.
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
