Psalms 104:9

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You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 9:11-15 : 11 I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.” 12 And God said,“This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations: 13 I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.
  • Job 38:10-11 : 10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 “You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.
  • Isa 54:9 : 9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:5-8
    4 verses
    83%

    5He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be moved.

    6The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

    7Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off–

    8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

  • Prov 8:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,

    29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

  • Job 26:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

    9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

    10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

  • Ps 104:10
    76%

    10He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

  • Job 38:10-13
    4 verses
    76%

    10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

    11when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

    12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 12:15
    74%

    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • Ps 104:13
    73%

    13He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

  • Ps 74:17
    73%

    17You set up all the boundaries of the earth; you created the cycle of summer and winter.

  • Ps 74:15
    72%

    15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • Ps 104:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

    30When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

  • Ps 89:11
    72%

    11The heavens belong to you, as does the earth. You made the world and all it contains.

  • Ps 148:6
    72%

    6He established them so they would endure; he issued a decree that will not be revoked.

  • Job 37:12
    71%

    12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • Job 14:5
    71%

    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • Hab 3:10
    71%

    10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

  • Job 22:11
    71%

    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Ps 73:9
    71%

    9They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.

  • Job 28:11
    71%

    11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

  • Job 11:9
    71%

    9Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

  • Job 38:34
    71%

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

  • Ps 65:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Even those living in the most remote areas are awestruck by your acts; you cause those living in the east and west to praise you.

    9You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile. God’s streams are full of water; you provide grain for them, for you have prepared the earth in this way.

  • Ps 19:4
    71%

    4Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.

  • Ps 89:9
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    9You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.

  • Hab 1:14
    70%

    14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

  • Job 9:7-8
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    70%

    7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

    8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

  • Job 38:16
    70%

    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • Ps 8:8
    70%

    8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.

  • Neh 9:11
    70%

    11You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.

  • Job 28:4
    70%

    4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • Exod 15:10
    70%

    10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • Gen 8:2
    70%

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

  • Job 28:9
    70%

    9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

  • Jer 5:22
    70%

    22“You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”

  • Ps 73:18
    69%

    18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

  • Ps 114:8
    69%

    8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!

  • Job 14:19
    69%

    19as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

  • Gen 7:19
    69%

    19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

  • Ps 107:33
    69%

    33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,