Psalms 104:5-9
5 He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be moved.
6 The watery deep covered it ▼
▼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.
like a garment; the waters reached ▼
▼tn Heb “stood.”
above the mountains. ▼ 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. ▼
▼tn Heb “from your shout they fled, from the sound of your thunder they hurried off.”
▼ 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross,
so that they would not cover the earth again. ▼
▼tn Heb “a boundary you set up, they will not cross, they will not return to cover the earth.”
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