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Psalms 33:7
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the believing assembly, positioning the verse between a declaration of creation by the Lord’s word and a command for all earth to fear Him. The words — The Hebrew employs the participles כֹּנֵס (ko.Nes, “he is gathering”) and נֹתֵן (no.Ten, “he is putting”) to denote God’s continuous sovereign action rather than a single historical event. The imagery compares the collected sea waters to a heap deposited into divine storehouses. The thread — This depiction of contained waters aligns with Exodus 15:8, where currents stand firm at God’s breath, and Joshua 3:13–16, where the Jordan’s flow halts upstream to allow passage. Why it lands — The text requires the reader to acknowledge that the power which ordered creation actively maintains natural boundaries, demanding a response of reverence grounded in God’s ongoing control.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Cross-references
- Exodus 15:8 At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Joshua 3:16 the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
- Joshua 3:13 When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
- Genesis 1:9 And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
- Psalms 104:6 You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- Habakkuk 3:15 You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
- Job 26:10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
- Job 38:8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- Proverbs 8:29 when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
- Jeremiah 5:22 Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.