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8. Or who flint up the Sea 

 with doors, when it brake 

 forth, as if it had iffiied out of 

 the womb ? 



g. When I made the cloud 

 the garment thereof, and thick 

 darknefs a fwaddHng band for 

 it, 



ro. And brake up for it my 

 decreed place, and fet bars and 

 doors, 



1 1 . And faid. Hitherto flialt 

 thou come, but no farther : 

 and here fhall thy proud waves 

 be (laid. 



12. Haft thou commanded 

 the morning fince thy days ? 

 and caufed the day-fpring to 

 know his place, 



13. That it might take hold 

 of the ends of the Earth, that 

 the wicked might be fhaken out 

 of i- ? 



14. It is turned as clay to 

 the feal, and they ftand as a gar- 

 ment. 



8. Who appointed gates to 

 the Sea, to fliut it up again, 

 when it inundated the Earth, 

 rufliing as from it's mother'3 

 womb ; 



g. When I gave it the clouds 

 for a covering, and wrapped it 

 up in darknefs, as a child is 

 wrapped up in fwaddling- 

 clothes ? 



10. I fliut it up within 

 bounds well-known to me ; I 

 appointed for it a bulwark and 

 fluices, 



1 1 . And faid to it. Thus far 

 fhalt thou come, but farther 

 thou fhalt not pafs, and here 

 the pride of thy billows fliall be 

 broken. 



1 2. Is it thou who, in open- 

 ing thine eyes to the light, haft 

 given commandment to the 

 dawning of the day to appear, 

 and haft fhewn to Aurora the 

 place where flie ought toarife.? 



13. Is it thou who, holding 

 in thy hands the extremities 

 of the Earth, haft convulfed 

 it, and fliaken the wicked out 

 of it? 



14. A multitude of minute 

 monuments of this event fliall 

 remain imprelfed in the clay, 

 and fliall fubfift as the memo- 

 rials of that devaftation. 



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15. And 



