Deep

Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.

You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,

The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.

So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.

The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

…to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

…when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

They saw the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep.

Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

…when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.

What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.

Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.

…it was eight cubits deep, and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.

(The porticoes around the inner court were twenty-five cubits long and five cubits deep.)

The portico was twenty cubits wide and twelve cubits deep, and ten steps led up to it. There were columns by the side pillars, one on each side.

These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:

Once again he measured off a thousand cubits, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough for swimming—a river that could not be crossed on foot.

He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.

While he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, helped me to my feet,

I heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.

When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?

And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.

They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you