Bible Verses About Sand
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Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Scripture Passages
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beerβsheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.
And Benβhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
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