New Revised Standard Version
the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

Contemporary English Version
God stopped up the places where the water had been gushing out from under the earth. He also closed up the sky, and the rain stopped.

New American Bible
The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

fountains.

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:

Proverbs 8:28 When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;

Jonah 2:3 And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

the rain.

Job 37:11-13 Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light: . . .

Job 38:37 Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?

Matthew 8:9,26,27 For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another Come, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. . . .