Psalm 33:7 {32:7}
Good News Translation
He gathered all the seas into one place; he shut up the ocean depths in storerooms.

New Revised Standard Version
He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.

Contemporary English Version
He scooped up the ocean and stored the water.

New American Bible
He gathered the waters of the sea as a mound; he sets the deep into storage vaults.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.

He gathereth

Psalm 104:6-9 The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand. . . .

Genesis 1:9,10 God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done. . . .

Job 26:10 He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

Job 38:8-11 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: . . .

Proverbs 8:29 I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

Jeremiah 5:22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

heap

Exodus 15:8 And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

Joshua 3:13,16 And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap. . . .

Habakkuk 3:15 Thou madest a way in the sea for thy horses, in the mud of many waters.

Context
Praise to the Creator
6By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the power of them by the spirit of his mouth: 7Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.8Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of the world be in awe of him.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Exodus 15:8
And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

Joshua 3:16
The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.

Job 38:10
I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

Psalm 78:13
He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

Psalm 104:8
The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.

Psalm 33:6
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