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Psalms 104:6
6You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.
Context of Psalms 104:6
4He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants. 5He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved. You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight; 8they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.
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תְּ֭הוֹם כַּלְּב֣וּשׁ כִּסִּית֑וֹ עַל־הָ֝רִ֗ים יַֽעַמְדוּ־מָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 104:6
- Genesis 1:2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
- Genesis 7:19They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
- 2 Peter 3:5But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by 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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