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? 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.