The sea and dry land belong to God, who made them, formed them by hand.
They saw the works of the Lord, the wonders of God in the deep.
The maker of heaven and earth, the seas and all that is in them, Who keeps faith forever,
He gathered the waters of the sea as a mound; he sets the deep into storage vaults.
When the earth and the fields were not yet made, nor the first clods of the world.
When he set for the sea its limit, so that the waters should not transgress his command; When he fixed the foundations of earth,
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.
“I am a Hebrew,” he replied; “I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”