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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Referenced Verses

  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:5-8
    4 verses
    83%

    5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

    6You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

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

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

  • Prov 8:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

    29when 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%

    8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

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

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

  • Ps 104:10
    76%

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

  • Job 38:10-13
    4 verses
    76%

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

    11and 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;

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

  • Job 12:15
    74%

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

  • Ps 104:13
    73%

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

  • Ps 74:17
    73%

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

  • Ps 74:15
    72%

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

  • Ps 104:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Ps 89:11
    72%

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

  • Ps 148:6
    72%

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

  • Job 37:12
    71%

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

  • Job 14:5
    71%

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

  • Hab 3:10
    71%

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

  • Job 22:11
    71%

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

  • Ps 73:9
    71%

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

  • Job 28:11
    71%

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

  • Job 11:9
    71%

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

  • Job 38:34
    71%

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

  • Ps 65:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

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

    9You 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.

  • Ps 19:4
    71%

    4Their 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,

  • Ps 89:9
    71%

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

  • Hab 1:14
    70%

    14and 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%

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

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

  • Job 38:16
    70%

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

  • Ps 8:8
    70%

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

  • Neh 9:11
    70%

    11You 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.

  • Job 28:4
    70%

    4He 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.

  • Exod 15:10
    70%

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

  • Gen 8:2
    70%

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

  • Job 28:9
    70%

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

  • Jer 5:22
    70%

    22Don'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 73:18
    69%

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

  • Ps 114:8
    69%

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

  • Job 14:19
    69%

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

  • Gen 7:19
    69%

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

  • Ps 107:33
    69%

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