Psalms 104:8

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

With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

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.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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

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

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

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.

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.

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

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

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

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

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

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

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.

By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

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

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

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

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,

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

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.’

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

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

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.