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Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,
The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.
The floods covered them;
they sank to the depths like a stone.
The waters heaped up at the blast of Your nostrils;
the currents stood firm like a dam.
The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;
He said about Joseph:
May his land be blessed by the Lord
with the dew of heaven’s bounty
and the watery depths that lie beneath;
The ocean depths say, “It’s not in me,”
while the sea declares, “I don’t have it.”
Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked in the depths of the oceans?
when water becomes as hard as stone,
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
He gathers the waters of the sea into a heap;
He puts the depths into storehouses.
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains;
Your judgments, like the deepest sea.
Lord, You preserve man and beast.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
I was there when He established the heavens,
when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,
when He placed the skies above,
when the fountains of the ocean gushed out,
Wasn’t it You who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep,
who made the sea-bed into a road
for the redeemed to pass over?
The waters caused it to grow;
the underground springs made it tall,
directing their rivers all around
the place where the tree was planted
and sending their channels
to all the trees of the field.
“This is what the Lord God says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. I closed off the underground deep because of it: I held back the rivers of the deep, and its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.
The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
The mountains see You and shudder;
a downpour of water sweeps by.
The deep roars with its voice
and lifts its waves high.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,
He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.
My heart is like unvented wine;
it is about to burst like new wineskins.
therefore, tell those who plaster it that it will fall. Torrential rain will come, and I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will be released.
So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated them there and said, “Like a bursting flood, the Lord has burst out against my enemies before me.” Therefore, he named that place the Lord Bursts Out.
For the Lord our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn’t inquire of Him about the proper procedures.”
He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst beneath their weight.
My heart is like unvented wine;
it is about to burst like new wineskins.
Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,
“Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth;
burst into song and shout,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the forsaken one will be more
than the children of the married woman,”
says the Lord.