Bible Cross References
the depths
Genesis 1:9
Then God commanded, "Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear"---and it was done.
Genesis 7:11
When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,
Job 38:8-11
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Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth?
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It was I who covered the sea with clouds and wrapped it in darkness.
10
I marked a boundary for the sea and kept it behind bolted gates.
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I told it, "So far and no farther! Here your powerful waves must stop."
Psalm 104:8
They flowed over the mountains and into the valleys, to the place you had made for them.
Psalm 104:9
You set a boundary they can never pass, to keep them from covering the earth again.
the clouds
Genesis 27:28
May God give you dew from heaven and make your fields fertile! May he give you plenty of grain and wine!
Genesis 27:37-39
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Isaac answered, "I have already made him master over you, and I have made all his relatives his slaves. I have given him grain and wine. Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!"
38
Esau continued to plead with his father: "Do you have only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!" He began to cry.
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Then Isaac said to him, "No dew from heaven for you, No fertile fields for you.
Deuteronomy 33:28
So Jacob's descendants live in peace, secure in a land full of grain and wine, where dew from the sky waters the ground.
Job 36:27
It is God who takes water from the earth and turns it into drops of rain.
Job 36:28
He lets the rain pour from the clouds in showers for all human beings.
Job 38:26-28
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Who makes rain fall where no one lives?
27
Who waters the dry and thirsty land, so that grass springs up?
28
Does either the rain or the dew have a father?
Psalm 65:9-12
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You show your care for the land by sending rain; you make it rich and fertile. You fill the streams with water; you provide the earth with crops. This is how you do it:
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you send abundant rain on the plowed fields and soak them with water; you soften the soil with showers and cause the young plants to grow.
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What a rich harvest your goodness provides! Wherever you go there is plenty.
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The pastures are filled with flocks; the hillsides are full of joy.
Jeremiah 14:22
None of the idols of the nations can send rain; the sky by itself cannot make showers fall. We have put our hope in you, O LORD our God, because you are the one who does these things.
Joel 2:23
"Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice at what the LORD your God has done for you. He has given you the right amount of autumn rain; he has poured down the winter rain for you and the spring rain as before.