Genesis 8:2 Cross References - CLV

² And being held in check are the springs of the submerged chaos and the crevices of the heavens, and being shut up is the downpour from the heavens,

¹¹ in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month. On this day rent are all the springs of the vast submerged chaos, and the crevices of the heavens are opened,

¹¹ Indeed, He encumbers the thick cloud with soaking moisture; He scatters His lightning cloud, ¹² And He directs them round about, Turning according to His strategies, That their deeds be all that He instructs them On the face of the earth's habitation. ¹³ Whether it be for a club that He fulfills His approved plan, Or for benignity, it is He Who causes it to occur.

³⁷ Who can number the sky clouds in wisdom? And the waterskins of the heavens, who can tip down,

²⁸ When He made the sky clouds firm above, When He set the springs of the abyss with strength,

³ And You are flinging me into the shadowy depth, into the heart of the seas, and the stream is surrounding me; all Your breakers and Your billows pass over me."

⁹ For I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under me, and I am saying to this one, 'Go,' and he is going, and to another, 'Come,' and he is coming, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he is doing it."

²⁶ And He is saying to them, "Why are you timid, scant of faith?Then, being roused, He rebukes the winds and the sea, and there came a great calm." ²⁷ Now the men marvel, saying, "What manner of Man is this, that the winds as well as the sea are obeying Him?