Job 38:16

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

Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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

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

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

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,

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

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

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.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

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.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”

You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

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.

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

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.

The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’

and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here?’

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

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

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me,

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

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

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.

You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.

I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”

The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,

but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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.

For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.