Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 33:7

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Psalms 33:7 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Psalms 33:7. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

Is God's Control Over the Sea Permanent or Temporary?

Learn how Psalms 33:7 contradicts Job 38:8-11, Jeremiah 5:22, Revelation 21:1 and Genesis 8:2

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According to the psalmist, this verse means that God is so powerful he can collect the ocean like someone gathering a pile of things and keep it safely, just like putting treasures in a special place. It shows that God can control the biggest and deepest parts of the sea.

Psalms 33:7: He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Contradiction with Job 38:8-11

These verses describe God setting limits to the sea, similar to Psalms 33:7 which states He gathers the waters, but Psalm emphasizes control rather than containment.

Job 38:8-11: Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?

Contradiction with Jeremiah 5:22

This verse speaks about God putting the sand as the boundary of the sea, suggesting a permanent boundary unlike the gathered waters concept in Psalms 33:7 which implies temporary control.

Jeremiah 5:22: 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?

Contradiction with Revelation 21:1

This verse mentions a new heaven and a new earth where there is no more sea, contradicting the idea in Psalms 33:7 about God gathering sea waters.

Revelation 21:1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

Contradiction with Genesis 8:2

Describes the closing of the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven at the end of the flood, contradicting the gathering and control of waters emphasized in Psalms 33:7.

Genesis 8:2: The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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