Amos 9:6

World English Bible (2000)

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

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  • Ps 104:3 : 3 He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."
  • Ps 104:13 : 13 He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
  • Jer 5:22 : 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? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'
  • Ps 104:5-6 : 5 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. 6 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
  • Gen 2:1 : 1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.
  • Gen 7:11-19 : 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened. 12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship; 14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them. 16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in. 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
  • Exod 3:14-15 : 14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" 15 God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

  • 5 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

  • 13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."

  • 6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

  • Ps 33:6-7
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    6 By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.

    7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

  • Ps 135:6-7
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    6 Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

    7 who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

  • 8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

  • 6 You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

    13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Jer 51:15-16
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    15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

    16 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • 2 Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name:

  • 35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

  • 11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

  • 2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

  • 15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

  • 3 He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

  • 5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

  • 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

  • 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

  • 1 Thus says Yahweh, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?

  • 3 Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

  • 6 For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

  • 6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

  • 16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

  • Job 26:8-9
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    8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

    9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

  • 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

  • 18 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: "I am Yahweh; and there is no other.

  • 7 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

  • 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

  • 19 Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

  • 9 Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,

  • 27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

  • 16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.

  • 10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

  • 6 To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

  • 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.

  • 4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

  • 6 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

  • 8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

    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;

  • 16 Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

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    1 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

  • 15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • 4 Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.