Psalms 104:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe: neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth.

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  • Gen 9:11-15 : 11 And my couenaunt I make with you, that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde, neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more. 12 And God sayde: this is the token of the couenaut which I make betweene me and you, and euery lyuyng creature that is with you, for euer. 13 I do set my bowe in the cloude, and it shall be for a token betweene me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude. 15 And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you, and euery liuing creature in all fleshe: and it shall no more come to passe, that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He hath compassed the waters with certayne boundes, vntill the day and night come to an ende.
  • Job 38:10-11 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.
  • Isa 54:9 : 9 And this is vnto me as the water of Noe: for like as I haue sworne that I wyll not bryng the water of Noe any more vpon the worlde: so haue I sworne that I wyll neuer be angry with thee, nor reproue thee.

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  • Ps 104:5-8
    4 verses
    83%

    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.

    7 At thy rebuke they flee: at the noyse of thy thunder they bluster downe apace.

    8 The hilles mount aloft: and the valleys settle downe beneath vnto the place where thou hast layde a foundation for them.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    78%

    28 When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe:

    29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth,

  • Job 26:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8 He byndeth the water in his cloudes, & the cloude is not broken vnder them.

    9 He holdeth backe the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloude before it.

    10 He hath compassed the waters with certayne boundes, vntill the day and night come to an ende.

  • 10 Who also causeth the springes which runne betweene the hilles: to flowe into the riuers.

  • Job 38:10-13
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

    12 Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,

    13 That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it.

  • 15 Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth.

  • 13 He watereth the hilles from aboue: the earth is replenished with the fruite of thy workes.

  • 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast ordeyned summer and wynter.

  • 15 Thou broughtest out fountaynes and waters out of the harde rockes: thou dyddest drye vp mightie waters.

  • Ps 104:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29 When thou hydest thy face, they are troubled: when thou takest away their spirite, they dye, and are turned agayne to their dust.

    30 When thou sendest out thy spirite, they be recreated: and thou reuiuest the face of the earth.

  • 11 The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde, and of all the plentie that is therin.

  • 6 He hath set them sure for euer and euer: he hath geuen them a lawe which shall not be broken.

  • 12 He turneth the heauens about by his gouernement, that they may do whatsoeuer he commaundeth them vpon the whole worlde.

  • 5 The dayes of man surely are determined, the number of his monethes are knowen onely vnto thee, thou hast appoynted him his bondes which he can not go beyonde.

  • 10 The mountaynes sawe thee and they trembled, the streame of the water passed by, the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his handes on hye.

  • 11 Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?

  • 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde.

  • 11 He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

  • 9 The measure of it is longer then the earth, and broder then the sea.

  • 34 Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?

  • Ps 65:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 They also that dwel in the vtmost partes of the earth be afrayde at thy signes: thou makest them reioyce at the going foorth of the morning and euenyng.

    9 Thou visitest the earth, and thou makest it ouerflowne, thou enrichest it greatly: the riuer of God is full of water, thou preparest their corne, for so thou ordaynest it.

  • 4 yet their sounde goeth into all landes, and their wordes into the endes of the worlde.In them he hath set a tabernacle for the sunne:

  • 9 Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea: when her waues aryse, thou delayest them.

  • 14 And makest men as the fishe of the sea, and as the creeping thinges that haue no ruler ouer them.

  • Job 9:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 He commaundeth the sunne, and it ryseth not: he closeth vp the starres as vnder a signet.

    8 He hym selfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and goeth vpon the waues of the sea.

  • 16 Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe?

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    8 the foules of the ayre, and the fishe of the sea, and whatsoeuer swymmeth in the seas.

  • 11 And the red sea diddest thou deuide in sunder before them, so that they went through the middest of the sea drye shod: and their persecuters threwest thou into the deepe, as a stone in the mightie waters:

  • 4 He causeth the fluddes to breake out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, beyng hygher then man, are gone away.

  • 10 Thou diddest blowe with thy wynde, the sea couered the, they sanke as leade in the myghtie waters.

  • 2 The fountaynes also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the rayne from heauen was restrayned.

  • 9 There putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes.

  • 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.

  • 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed.

  • 8 Whiche turned the harde rocke into a standing water: and the flint stone into a springing well of waters.

  • 19 The waters pearse through the very stones by litle & litle, the floodes washe away the grauell and earth: so shalt thou destroy the hope of man.

  • 19 And the waters preuayled exceedingly vpon the earth, and al the high hilles that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.

  • 33 He turneth fluddes into a wildernes: and waterspringes into a drye grounde.