Sea, deep, and flood imagery uses oceans, depths, floods, waves, and overwhelming waters to describe chaos, danger, judgment, distress, hostile powers, and the LORD’s mastery over forces that seem uncontrollable.
Sea, deep, and flood imagery uses oceans, depths, floods, waves, and overwhelming waters to describe chaos, danger, judgment, distress, hostile powers, and the LORD’s mastery over forces that seem uncontrollable.
A chaos-water motif in which deep waters and the sea signify primordial disorder, national or personal distress, judgment, overwhelming opposition, and divine sovereignty over the boundary and raging of the waters.
These examples show how Sea, Deep, and Flood Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
darkness was upon the face of the deep
The deep marks the unformed watery condition over which God’s word brings order.
the fountains of the great deep broken up
The deep is connected with flood judgment.
The depths have covered them
The sea becomes the place where God judges Egypt and saves Israel.
Deep calleth unto deep
Deep-water imagery expresses overwhelming sorrow and wave-like distress.
the waters are come in unto my soul
Flood imagery pictures personal affliction as drowning danger.
The floods have lifted up... the LORD on high is mightier
Raging waters magnify the LORD’s superior majesty.
when thou passest through the waters
Waters signify dangers through which God promises preserving presence.
thou hadst cast me into the deep
The deep becomes a place of judgment, prayer, and deliverance.
Peace, be still
Jesus’ command over the sea displays divine authority over threatening chaos.
a beast rise up out of the sea
The sea is the symbolic source of beastly imperial power and conflict.
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