One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.

when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

when he established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong,

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

The deep says, ‘It is not with me.’ And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.

Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?

The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw the sovereign Lord summoning a shower of fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields.

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 floodgates of the heavens were opened.

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.