Sentences with phrase «face of the waters»

An early hit was titled «God moving over the face of the waters» and he sampled gospel spirituals for some of his biggest hits on Play — «Natural blues», «Why does my heart feel so bad?»

And the spirit of God moved [brooded] upon the face of the waters.

His presence was real in the Burning Bush, but He is not fire; He moved across the face of the waters at creation, but He is not water.

In that second verse where it says the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, he says the Hebrew translates brooded, or that God was angry and disturbed, something terrible had happened.

At the very beginning of the Bible (Gen. 1:2), where the KJV has, «And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,» the RSV also reads «Spirit,» but with a footnote, «Or wind.»

Genesis 1:2, the Bible is not talking about deep space, it is talking about deep water, and it tells us this in the next sentence: «And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.»

10 He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

The «face of the deep», and the «face of the waters» is the same thing.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

It is indeed the background, the setting or context, for human experience and history, but it is also in itself a historical process that the Bible portrays as moving from inchoate beginnings (when, as the myth in Genesis puts it, «the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters») to the consummation of all things (when, as Revelation says, there shall be «a new heaven and a new earth»).

And the Spirit of God swept over the face of the waters like a whirlwind.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

In the priestly account of creation in Genesis 1, the primeval chaos is ordered by the orderly, spoken commands of God: «In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.

The spirit of God that moved upon the face of the waters in creation (Gen. 1:2) now lights on Jesus to signify that Jesus will by his life and work effect the new creation.

The earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep; and the spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters [Gen. 1:1 - 2].

Now the earth was astonishingly empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

For this piece, Hannes Larusson built a viewing shelter in which «the spirit of Icelandic culture moves over the face of the waters.»

CO2 and other trace gases are far too small a proportion of the atmosphere to have any significant effect in the face of the water cycle on Earth.

Researchers from Sewanee and the University of Georgia test wetlands as a means to treat wastewater in the face of a water - scarce future.

And the Spirit of mammon moved upon the face of the waters.

The Pebble and the Pebble Steel both laugh in the face of water, but Samsung's Galaxy Gear just can't take it.