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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.

[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.

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.