Proverbs 8:29
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
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- Psalm 104:9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
- Jeremiah 5:22 Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
- Genesis 1:9–10 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.