Psalms 104:9

World English Bible (2000)

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

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  • Gen 9:11-15 : 11 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth." 12 God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
  • Job 38:10-11 : 10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
  • 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 33:7 : 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
  • Isa 54:9 : 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

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  • Ps 104:5-8
    4 verses
    83%

    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.

    7 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

    8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

  • Prov 8:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    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;

  • Job 26:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

    10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

  • 10 He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.

  • Job 38:10-13
    4 verses
    76%

    10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

    11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

    12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

    13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

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

  • 13 He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

  • 17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

  • 15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

  • Ps 104:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

    30 You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

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

  • 6 He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

  • 12 It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

  • 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

  • 10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

  • 11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • 11 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

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

  • 34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

  • Ps 65:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

    9 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

  • 4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

  • 9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

  • 14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

  • Job 9:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.

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

  • 16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

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    8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

  • 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

  • 4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

  • 10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • 2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

  • 9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

  • 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.'

  • 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

  • 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.

  • 19 The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

  • 19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

  • 33 He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,