* Hitherto.
   Thus far shall thy flux and reflux extend.  The tides are
   marvellously limited and regulated, not only by the lunar and
   solar attraction, but by the quantum of time required to
   remove any part of the earth's surface, by its rotation round
   its axis, from under the immediate attractive influence of the
   sun and moon.  Hence the attraction of the sun and moon, and
   the gravitation of the sea to its own centre, which prevent
   too great a flux on the one hand, and too great reflux on the
   other, are some of those bars and doors by which its proud
   waves are stayed, and prevented from coming farther.

  Ps 65:6,7  93:3,4  Pr 8:29  Mr 4:39-41 
 * but.
  1:22  2:6  Ps 76:10  89:9  Isa 27:8  Lu 8:32,33  Re 20:2,3,7,8 
 * thy proud waves.  Heb. the pride of thy waves.