when he established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong,
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.
God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?
Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off –
the one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who remains forever faithful,
By wisdom the Lord laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.
When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
But he said to them, “Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.