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    setting the beams of your chambers upon the waters.[a]
You make the clouds your chariot;
    traveling on the wings of the wind.

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  1. 104:3 Your chambers upon the waters: God’s heavenly dwelling above the upper waters of the sky, cf. Gn 1:6–7; Ps 29:10.

    and lays the beams(A) of his upper chambers on their waters.(B)
He makes the clouds(C) his chariot(D)
    and rides on the wings of the wind.(E)

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[a]Lord, incline your heavens and come down;
    touch the mountains and make them smoke.(A)

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  1. 144:5–7 Adapted in large part from Ps 18:10, 15, 17; 104:32.

Part your heavens,(A) Lord, and come down;(B)
    touch the mountains, so that they smoke.(C)

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19 [a]Too long have we been like those you do not rule,
    on whom your name is not invoked.
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
    with the mountains quaking before you,(A)

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  1. 63:19–64:3 A new theophany, like Sinai of old, is invoked so that Israel’s enemies will be humbled by God’s intervention.

19 We are yours from of old;
    but you have not ruled over them,
    they have not been called[a] by your name.(A)

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  1. Isaiah 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called