Bible Verses About Whales

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.

They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.

As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.

Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.