Genesis 1:7

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

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

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

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

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

It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

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? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

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 fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

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

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

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

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

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

He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.

Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

He binds the streams that they don’t trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

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

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!

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

wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.

For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

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

God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.

and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

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

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

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.