The separation of land and water (Genesis 1:9-10). The present tense (gathereth … layeth up) expresses the continued action of maintenance as well as the original creation. The comparison as an heapprobably refers to the appearance of the sea from the shore, and may have been derived from Exodus 15:8; cp. Joshua 3:13; Joshua 3:16; Psalms 78:13.

But all the Ancient Versions render as in a bottle, reading nôdfor nçd. To the infinite power of the Creator the bed of the sea is but as the water-skin which a man carries with him for a journey. See Isaiah 40:12; Isaiah 40:15. Cp. "the pitchers of heaven" (Job 38:37).

the depth Better as R.V., the deeps: the vast masses of water stored away in subterranean abysses (Genesis 7:11; Psalms 78:15). So we read of the storehouses of the wind (Psalms 135:7 = Jeremiah 10:13), of the snow and hail (Job 38:22).

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