Bible Verses About Continents

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.

The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.

He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

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

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

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’?

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—