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Psalm 104:6-9
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 104:6-9
New Catholic Bible
6 You covered it with the deep like a cloak;
the waters rose above the mountains.
7 At your rebuke[a] the waters took to flight;
at the sound of your thunder they fled in terror.
8 They rose up to the mountains
and flowed down to the valleys,[b]
to the place that you had designated for them.
9 You established a boundary that they were not to cross
so that they would never again cover the earth.
Footnotes
- Psalm 104:7 Rebuke: see Ps 76:7. Waters took to flight: poetic description of what took place on the third day of creation (see Gen 1:9f).
- Psalm 104:8 They rose up to the mountains and flowed down to the valleys: the sources of the Jordan and the other great rivers of the Near East are in the mountains. Another translation offered is: “The mountains rose high and the valleys went down.”
