when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken.
Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.
to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.
The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;
when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,
Do you not fear me? says the Lord; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the bound for the sea, a perpetual barrier which it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”