Psalm 104:6
New International Version
You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

New Living Translation
You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

English Standard Version
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Berean Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

King James Bible
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

New King James Version
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.

New American Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep sea as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

NASB 1995
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

NASB 1977
Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

Legacy Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

Amplified Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

Christian Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

American Standard Version
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The deep was like a cloak for its covering and above the mountains the waters rose up.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand on the hills.

Contemporary English Version
You covered the earth with the ocean that rose above the mountains.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

English Revised Version
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You covered the earth with an ocean as though it were a robe. Water stood above the mountains

Good News Translation
You placed the ocean over it like a robe, and the water covered the mountains.

International Standard Version
You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

Literal Standard Version
The abyss! You have covered it as with clothing, | Waters stand above hills.

Majority Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

New American Bible
The deeps covered it like a garment; above the mountains stood the waters.

NET Bible
The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

New Revised Standard Version
You cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

New Heart English Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

World English Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

Young's Literal Translation
The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

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Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
5He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved. 6You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—…

Cross References
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear." And it was so.

Job 38:8
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth--the LORD is His name--

Amos 9:6
He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.


Treasury of Scripture

You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Genesis 1:2-10
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters…

Genesis 7:19
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

2 Peter 3:5
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

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Psalm 104
1. A meditation upon the mighty power
7. And wonderful providence of God
31. God's glory is eternal
33. The prophet vows perpetually to praise God














(6) The deep.--The water-world is first considered as a vast garment wrapped round the earth, so that the mountain-tops are covered. But here it is beyond its right, and the Divine rebuke forces it to retire within narrower limits. It is noticeable that the idea of a chaos finds no place in the poetic conception of the world's genesis. The primitive world is not formless, but has its mountains and valleys already existing, though merged beneath the sea.

Verse 6. - Thou coveredst it with the deep, as with a garment (see Genesis 1:9). A watery covering was spread at first over the whole earth, and enveloped it like a garment. The waters stood above the mountains. The highest inequalities of the land were concealed under the watery integument.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You covered
כִּסִּית֑וֹ (kis·sî·ṯōw)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

it with the deep
תְּ֭הוֹם (tə·hō·wm)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep

like a garment;
כַּלְּב֣וּשׁ (kal·lə·ḇūš)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3830: A garment, clothing, raiment

the waters
מָֽיִם׃ (mā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

stood
יַֽעַמְדוּ־ (ya·‘am·ḏū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

above
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the mountains.
הָ֝רִ֗ים (hā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country


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