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Psalms 104:6
6You covered the earth with deep water, like a coat. The water covered the tops of the mountains.
Psalms 104:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
- New International Version (NIV)You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.
Context of Psalms 104:6
4You use the winds to carry your messages. Flames of fire are your servants. 5You, Lord, built the earth on its strong foundations. Nothing will ever shake it from its place. You covered the earth with deep water, like a coat. The water covered the tops of the mountains. 7But when you shouted, the water went back. It ran away, when you shouted like thunder. 8The water poured down from the mountains, and it went down into the valleys. It went to stay in the place that you had chosen for it.
Read all of Psalms 104Psalms 104:6 word by word
תְּ֭הוֹם כַּלְּב֣וּשׁ כִּסִּית֑וֹ עַל־הָ֝רִ֗ים יַֽעַמְדוּ־מָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 104:6
- Genesis 1:2The earth was without shape and it was empty. Deep water covered the earth and everywhere was dark. The Spirit of God moved above the water.
- Genesis 7:19More water came until it covered all the high mountains on the earth.
- 2 Peter 3:5These people choose to forget things that they really know. A long time ago, God spoke his word and he made the sky and the earth. He caused land to come up through water. He made the land to be separate from the water.
Commentaries on Psalms 104:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Thou coveredst it with the deep - This seems to be spoken in allusion to the creation of the earth, when it was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the waters invested the whole, till God separated the dry land from them; thus forming the seas and the terraqueous globe. The poet Ovid has nearly the same idea: - Densior his tellus, elementaque grandia traxit, Et pressa est gravitate sua; circumfluus humor Ultima possedit…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment - Compare the notes at Job 38:9. The meaning is, that God covered the earth with the sea - the waters - the abyss - as if a garment had been spread over it. The reference is to Genesis 1:2; where, in the account of the work of creation, what is there called “the deep” - the abyss - (the same Hebrew word as here - תהום tehôm - covered the earth, or was what “appeared,” or was manifest, before the waters…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6At first, water covered the earth.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-96-9. These verses rather describe the wonders of the flood than the creation (Ge 7:19, 20; 2Pe 3:5, 6). God's method of arresting the flood and making its waters subside is poetically called a "rebuke" (Psa 76:6; Is 50:2), and the process of the flood's subsiding by undulations among the hills and valleys is vividly described.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 104
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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