The Ocean

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; — read the full passage →

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; — read the full passage →

The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. — read the full passage →

Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. — read the full passage →

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; — read the full passage →

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: — read the full passage →

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. — read the full passage →

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights.

And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. — read the full passage →

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights. — read the full passage →

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.