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Psalm 95:5

The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

3For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
4In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.
5The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker,
7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
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The sea belongs to the God who made it, and the ground beneath your feet bears the work of his hands.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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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.Genesis describes dry land appearing at God's command; the psalm names that land as the work of his hands.
Psalm 146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;Both passages name God as the maker of the sea and the earth.
Psalm 148:5Let them praise the LORD’s name, for he commanded, and they were created.Both identify God as Creator, and Psalm 148 makes praise the response to his creating command.
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 describe God's work with sea and land, with Proverbs emphasizing the sea's boundary and the earth's foundations.
Job 38:10–11marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,Both use concrete images of God's workmanship: hands forming land, and a boundary marked out with bars and doors.
Jonah 1:9He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”Jonah names the LORD as maker of the sea and dry land, the same two parts of creation named here.
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 declare God's authority over the sea: the psalm through his ownership, Jeremiah through the boundary he establishes.
Psalm 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.Both portray the sea as subject to God, who made it and gathers its waters.
Psalm 107:24these see the LORD’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep.Both connect the sea with God's work, though Psalm 107 speaks of wonders witnessed there rather than its creation.
Proverbs 8:26Both speak of God making the earth, with Proverbs looking back to the time before land and dust existed.
Revelation 14:7He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and …Both name God as maker of earth and sea, and Revelation commands worship of this Creator.
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Encouragement

Your worship is directed to the Maker of the ground beneath you. The sea, with all its vastness, belongs to him; his hands formed the dry land.

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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).