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You covered the earth with an ocean as though it were a robe.
    Water stood above the mountains
        and fled because of your threat.
    Water ran away at the sound of your thunder.
        The mountains rose and the valleys sank
            to the place you appointed for them.

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You covered it(A) with the watery depths(B) as with a garment;
    the waters stood(C) above the mountains.
But at your rebuke(D) the waters fled,
    at the sound of your thunder(E) they took to flight;
they flowed over the mountains,
    they went down into the valleys,
    to the place you assigned(F) for them.

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