Psalm 104:6-8
New English Translation
6 The watery deep covered it[a] like a garment;
the waters reached[b] above the mountains.[c]
7 Your shout made the waters retreat;
at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off—
8 as the mountains rose up,
and the valleys went down—
to the place you appointed for them.[d]
Footnotes
- Psalm 104:6 tc Heb “you covered it.” The masculine suffix is problematic if the grammatically feminine noun “earth” is the antecedent. For this reason some emend the form from כִּסִּיתוֹ (kissito) to a feminine verb with feminine suffix, כִּסַּתָּה (kissattah, “[the watery deep] covered it [i.e., the earth]”), a reading assumed by the present translation.
- Psalm 104:6 tn Heb “stood.”
- Psalm 104:6 sn Verse 6 refers to the condition described in Gen 1:2 (note the use of the Hebrew term תְּהוֹם [tehom, “watery deep”] in both texts).
- Psalm 104:8 tn Heb “from your shout they fled, from the sound of your thunder they hurried off.”sn Verses 7-8 poetically depict Gen 1:9-10.
Psalm 104:6-8
New International Version
6 You covered it(A) with the watery depths(B) as with a garment;
the waters stood(C) above the mountains.
7 But at your rebuke(D) the waters fled,
at the sound of your thunder(E) they took to flight;
8 they flowed over the mountains,
they went down into the valleys,
to the place you assigned(F) for them.
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