Psalms 104:6

Brenton's Septuagint

The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand on the hills.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

English Revised Version
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains.

Update Bible Version
You covered it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

New Century Version
You covered the earth with oceans; the water was above the mountains.

New English Translation
The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

World English Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

Amplified Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

English Standard Version
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The depthe of watris as a cloth is the clothing therof; watris schulen stonde on hillis.

Berean Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Contemporary English Version
You covered the earth with the ocean that rose above the mountains.

American Standard Version
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

Bible in Basic English
Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

Complete Jewish Bible
You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Darby Translation
Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:

Easy-to-Read Version
You covered it with water like a blanket. The water covered even the mountains.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains.

King James Version (1611)
Thou coueredst it with the deepe as with a garment: the waters stood aboue the mountaines.

New Life Bible
You covered it with the sea as with a coat. The waters stood above the mountains.

New Revised Standard
You cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou coueredst it with the deepe as with a garment: the waters woulde stand aboue the mountaines.

George Lamsa Translation
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Good News Translation
You placed the ocean over it like a robe, and the water covered the mountains.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With the resounding deep - as a garment, hast thou covered it, Above the mountains, stand the waters;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(103-6) The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

Revised Standard Version
Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou coueredst it with the deepe, lyke as with a garment: the waters stande vpon the hilles.

Christian Standard Bible®
You covered it with the deepas if it were a garment;the water stood above the mountains.

Hebrew Names Version
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

King James Version
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Lexham English Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a garment. The waters stood above the mountains.

Literal Translation
You have covered the deep as with a robe; the waters stood above the mountains.

Young's Literal Translation
The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou couerest it with the depe like as with a garmet, so that the waters stonde aboue the hilles.

New American Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep sea as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

New King James Version
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

Legacy Standard Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a garment;The waters were standing above the mountains.

Contextual Overview

¹ Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou hast clothed thyself with praise and honour: ² who dost robe thyself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain. ³ Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind. ⁴ Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flaming fire. ⁵ Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: it shall not be moved for ever. ⁶ The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand on the hills. ⁷ At thy rebuke they shall flee; at the voice of thy thunder they shall be alarmed. ⁸ They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which thou hast founded for them. ⁹ Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass, neither shall they turn again to cover the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 1:2-10, Genesis 7:19, 2 Peter 3:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:20 - and the mountains Job 26:10 - compassed Job 38:14 - as a Psalms 24:2 - For Psalms 29:10 - sitteth Psalms 33:7 - He gathereth Psalms 65:7 - noise Ecclesiastes 1:7 - the rivers run Jonah 2:6 - mountains Matthew 8:26 - and rebuked Luke 8:24 - he arose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou coverest it with the deep as with a garment,.... This refers not to the waters of the flood, when the earth was covered with them, even the tops of the highest mountains; but to the huge mass of waters, the abyss and depth of them, which lay upon the earth and covered it as a garment, at its first creation, as the context and the scope of it show; and which deep was covered with darkness, at which time the earth was without form, and void, Genesis 1:2 an emblem of the corrupt state of man by nature, destitute of the image of God, void and empty of all that is good, having an huge mass of sin and corruption on him, and being darkness itself; though this depth does not separate the elect of God, in this state, from his love; nor these aboundings of sin hinder the superaboundings of the grace of God; nor the operations of his Spirit; nor the communication of light unto them; nor the forming and renewing them, so as to become a curious piece of workmanship; even as the state of the original earth did not hinder the moving of the Spirit upon the waters that covered it, to the bringing of it into a beautiful form and order.

The waters stood above the mountains; from whence we learn the mountains were from the beginning of the creation; since they were when the depths of water covered the unformed chaos; and which depths were so very great as to reach above the highest mountains; an emblem of the universal corruption of human nature; the highest, the greatest men that ever were, comparable to mountains, have been involved in it, as David, Paul, and others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment - Compare the notes at Job 38:9. The meaning is, that God covered the earth with the sea - the waters - the abyss - as if a garment had been spread over it. The reference is to Genesis 1:2; where, in the account of the work of creation, what is there called “the deep” - the abyss - (the same Hebrew word as here - תהום t^ehôm - covered the earth, or was what “appeared,” or was manifest, before the waters were collected into seas, and the dry land was seen.

The waters stood above the mountains - Above what are now the mountains. As yet no dry land appeared. It seemed to be one wide waste of waters. This does not refer to the Deluge, but to the appearance of the earth at the time of the creation, before the gathering of the waters into seas and oceans, Genesis 1:9. At that stage in the work, all that appeared was a wide waste of waters.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:6. Thou coveredst it with the deep — This seems to be spoken in allusion to the creation of the earth, when it was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the waters invested the whole, till God separated the dry land from them; thus forming the seas and the terraqueous globe.

The poet Ovid has nearly the same idea: -

Densior his tellus, elementaque grandia traxit,

Et pressa est gravitate sua; circumfluus humor

Ultima possedit, solidumque coercuit orbem.

Met. lib. i., ver. 29.

Earth sinks beneath, and draws a numerous throng

Of ponderous, thick, unwieldy seeds along:

About her coasts unruly waters roar;

And, rising on a ridge, insult the shore.

DRYDEN.