He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
He gathereth ... as an heap - a daily-recurring wonder. God gathereth the fluid mass as one would gather a solid heap, and prevents the waters spreading over the earth further than they did at the first. There is an allusion to Exodus 15:8, "With the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap;" and at the beginning (Genesis 1:9-10). Compare Joshua 3:13. The ordinary checking of the waters is as real a proof of God's omnipotence as the miraculous restraining of them at the Red Sea. The Septuagint, Chaldaic, Arabic, Vulgate, Ethiopic, and Syriac versions read [not need (H5067), as the English version, but no'r] a bottle, for a "heap." Psalms 78:13 confirms the English version reading.
He layeth up ... - "the depth," or 'the billows.' These are deposited by God in the deep caverns of the sea as securely as treasures laid up in a safe store.