Psalms 104:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

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  • Gen 9:11-15 : 11 And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.' 12 And God saith, `This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that `is' with you, to generations age-during; 13 My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth; 14 and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud, 15 and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;
  • Job 26:10 : 10 A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.
  • Job 38:10-11 : 10 And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors, 11 And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.
  • Isa 54:9 : 9 For, the waters of Noah `is' this to Me, In that I have sworn -- the waters of Noah Do not pass again over the earth -- So I have sworn, Wrath is not upon thee, Nor rebuke against thee.

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  • Ps 104:5-8
    4 verses
    83%

    5He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

    6The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

    7From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

    8They go up hills -- they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.

  • Prov 8:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

    29In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

  • Job 26:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.

    9Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud.

    10A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

  • 10Who is sending forth fountains in valleys, Between hills they go on.

  • Job 38:10-13
    4 verses
    76%

    10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

    11And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

    12Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?

    13To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

  • 15Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

  • 13Watering hills from His upper chambers, From the fruit of Thy works is the earth satisfied.

  • 17Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them.

  • 15Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.

  • Ps 104:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

    30Thou sendest out Thy Spirit, they are created, And Thou renewest the face of the ground.

  • 11Thine `are' the heavens -- the earth also `is' Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.

  • 6And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.

  • 12And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.

  • 5If determined are his days, The number of his months `are' with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

  • 10Seen thee -- pained are mountains, An inundation of waters hath passed over, Given forth hath the deep its voice, High its hands it hath lifted up.

  • 11Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

  • 9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

  • 11From overflowing floods he hath bound, And the hidden thing bringeth out `to' light.

  • 9Longer than earth `is' its measure, And broader than the sea.

  • 34Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

  • Ps 65:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8And the inhabitants of the uttermost parts From Thy signs are afraid, The outgoings of morning and evening Thou causest to sing.

    9Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God `is' full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,

  • 4Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,

  • 9Thou `art' ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

  • 14And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him.

  • Job 9:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7Who is speaking to the sun, and it riseth not, And the stars He sealeth up.

    8Stretching out the heavens by Himself, And treading on the heights of the sea,

  • 16Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?

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    8Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!

  • 11And the sea Thou hast cleaved before them, and they pass over into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and their pursuers Thou hast cast into the depths, as a stone, into the strong waters.

  • 4A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

  • 10Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.

  • 2and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

  • 9Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

  • 22Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.

  • 18Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

  • 8He is turning the rock to a pool of waters, The flint to a fountain of waters!

  • 19Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.

  • 19And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which `are' under the whole heavens;

  • 33He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.