Genesis 7:18

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot.

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

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.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever:

By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

“Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.

The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

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

So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;

then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.

You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

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

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

“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

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

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

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

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

The old men of Gebal and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you. All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.