Verse 2

For he hath laide the foundation of it vpon the seas: and he hath set it sure vpon the fluddes.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 136:6 : 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters: for his mercy endureth for euer.
  • Gen 1:9-9 : 9 And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so. 10 And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.
  • Ps 104:5-6 : 5 He hath layde the earth sure vpon her foundations: that it can neuer moue at any tyme. 6 Thou coueredst it with the deepe, lyke as with a garment: the waters stande vpon the hilles.
  • Ps 96:10 : 10 Set it foorth in wordes among the heathen that God raigneth: and that the worlde is set of a sure foundation, it shall not be remoued, he wyll iudge the people accordyng to equitie.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Feare ye not me, saith the Lorde? will ye not tremble at my presence? which bynde the sea with the sande by a continuall decree, so that it can not passe his boundes: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing, and though the waues therof do swell, yet may they not go ouer.
  • Jer 10:11-16 : 11 As for their gods thus shall you say to them, they are no gods that made neither heauen nor earth, therfore shall they perishe from the earth, and from all thinges vnder heauen. 12 But as for our God he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome doth he order the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discretion hath he spread out the heauens. 13 At his voyce the waters gathered together in the ayre, he draweth vp the cloudes from the vttermost partes of the earth, he turneth lightning to raine, and bringeth foorth the windes out of their treasures. 14 His wisdome maketh all men fooles, and confounded be casters of images: for that they cast, is but a vayne thing, and hath no life. 15 The vayne craftesmen with their workes that they in their vanitie haue made, shall perishe one with another in time of visitation. 16 Neuerthelesse, Iacobs portion is none such: but it is he that hath made all thinges, and Israel is the rod of his inheritaunce: the Lorde of hoastes is his name.
  • 2 Pet 3:5-7 : 5 For this they knowe not (and that wylfully) howe that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water, and by the water, by the worde of God: 6 By the which thinges the world that then was, perisshed, beyng then ouerrunne with water. 7 But the heauens and earth whiche are nowe, be kept by his worde in store, and reserued vnto fire, agaynst the day of iudgement and perdition of vngodly men.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest, colde and heate, sommer and wynter, day and nyght, ceasse all the dayes of the earth.
  • Job 38:4 : 4 Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe? 9 When I made the cloudes to be a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke: 10 When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it, 11 Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.
  • Ps 33:6 : 6 By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth.
  • Ps 93:1 : 1 God raigneth, he is clothed with a glorious maiestie, God is clothed with strength: he hath girded hym selfe, he hath made the worlde so sure that it can not be moued.
  • Ps 95:4 : 4 In his hande are all the deepe corners of the earth: and the hygh toppes of hylles be his also.