“Have you gone to the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
In the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day, all the water sources of the great deep burst open, and the windows of the sky were opened.
Also the sources of the deep and the windows of the skies were closed up, and the rain from the sky was held back.
He alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind. Lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
when He established the skies above, when He securely fixed the fountains of the deep,
Therefore thus says Adonai: “Yes, I will uphold your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.