He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: