The Sea: God: Set Bounds To, by a Perpetual Decree

He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

…when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

…and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

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

…when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.