Verse 2

For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the waters.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 136:6 : 6 To him who stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures forever.
  • Gen 1:9-9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathered waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good.
  • Ps 104:5-6 : 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
  • Ps 96:10 : 10 Say among the nations that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Do you not fear me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
  • Jer 10:11-16 : 11 Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. 12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion. 13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning with rain, and brings forth the wind from his storehouses. 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is humiliated by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall perish. 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the Maker of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
  • 2 Pet 3:5-7 : 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens existed of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Job 38:4 : 4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or who closed up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, 10 And fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors, 11 And said, This far you shall come, but no further; and here shall your proud waves be stopped?
  • Ps 33:6 : 6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
  • Ps 93:1 : 1 The LORD reigns, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, with which he has girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
  • Ps 95:4 : 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.