Verse 10

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

Referenced Verses

• Job 38:8-9 : 8 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb, 9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, 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?'
• Prov 8:29 : 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;
• Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
• 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.'
• Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
• Ps 104:6-9 : 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. 9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
• Isa 54:9-9 : 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. 10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed," says Yahweh who has mercy on you.