Skip to main content
Psalmlog Logo
Read

Psalm 33:7

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

6By the LORD’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.
7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
8Let all the earth fear the LORD. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
World English BibleRead in NIV in Psalmlog →
← Psalm 33:6Psalm 33:8 →
Notice

The sea gathered into a heap and the deeps held in storehouses stretch your sense of scale: what dwarfs human strength remains under God’s command.

Questions to write on. Each one opens a new entry with this verse already attached.

What changes in your picture of the sea when you imagine God gathering its waters?

Write on this

What does the word “storehouses” suggest to you about God’s relation to the vast deeps?

Write on this
Connect

Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

This verse's connections, by chapterThe Bible's strongest chapter linksHover or tap a book to trace it
Exodus 15:8With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.Both passages describe waters gathered as a heap and the deeps subject to God’s power.
Joshua 3:16the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down …The waters rising in one heap in Joshua share the psalm’s striking picture of gathered water.
Genesis 1:9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.Both texts describe God gathering waters together, showing his authority over their place.
Joshua 3:13It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of GOD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the …Joshua’s promised heap of Jordan water shares the psalm’s picture of waters gathered under God’s authority.
Jeremiah 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says the LORD; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t …Both passages portray the sea as subject to God, who contains waters beyond human control.
Habakkuk 3:15You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.Both passages portray God’s power over sea waters, through gathering in the psalm and trampling in Habakkuk.
Psalm 104:6–9You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.Both psalms describe God acting upon the deep, using images of water on a vast scale.
Job 26:10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.God’s boundary on the waters in Job shares the psalm’s picture of waters ordered by him.
Job 38:8“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,The sea shut behind doors in Job parallels the deeps held in storehouses in the psalm.
Job 38:22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,Both passages use storehouses as a poetic image, for the deeps in the psalm and frozen precipitation in Job.
Proverbs 8:29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,Both passages describe waters under God’s command, contained in the psalm and bounded in Proverbs.
Where this verse fits

Praise and worship. fear for the future.

What the Bible says about worship →What the Bible says about fear →
One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 33:5–9 aloud, pausing at the two water images

scriptureoncelight
Encouragement

The sea’s vastness can leave you feeling small. This song gives that vastness its proper scale: even the deeps are within the rule of God.

Now put it in your words.

Start an entry on Psalm 33:7. Write what it stirs. Psalmlog sets your words beside Scripture and gives you one next step. Your first entry is free, no account needed.

Keep goingPsalm 33 · the whole chapter with its connection mapPsalms · every chapterBuild a reading plan through Psalms

Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).