The Ocean

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

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

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

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

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.’

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

who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

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

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

The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses. — read the full passage →

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths!

For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

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

I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

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

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;

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

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. — read the full passage →

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

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

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals. — read the full passage →

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

but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

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;

God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!

Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. — read the full passage →

The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

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

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

There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

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

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

You 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.

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

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! — read the full passage →

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.