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Psalms 104:3
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you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind.
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who makes the clouds his chariot; Who walks on the wings of the wind;
You build your room above the clouds. You make the clouds your chariot, and you ride on the wings of the wind.
and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
Who lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters [above the firmament], Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,
He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;
and thou hilist with watris the hiyer partis therof. Which settist a cloude thi stiyng; which goest on the fetheris of wyndis.
laying the beams of His chambers on the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
and you built your home over the mighty ocean. The clouds are your chariot with the wind as its wings.
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:
you laid the beams of your palace on the water. You make the clouds your chariot, you ride on the wings of the wind.
Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
You built your home above them. You use the thick clouds like a chariot and ride across the sky on the wings of the wind.
Who layest the beams of Thine upper chambers in the waters,
Who layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, who maketh the cloudes his charet: who walketh vpon the wings of the wind.
He makes His home on the waters. He makes the clouds His wagon. He rides on the wings of the wind.
you set the beams of your chambers on the waters, you make the clouds your chariot, you ride on the wings of the wind,
Which layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the cloudes his chariot, and walketh vpon the wings of the winde.
Who layest the beams of his chambers in the waters, who makest the clouds his chariot, who walkest upon the wings of the wind,
and built your home on the waters above. You use the clouds as your chariot and ride on the wings of the wind.
Building, in the waters, his upper chambers, - Who maketh clouds his chariot, Who passeth along on the wings of the wind;
(103-3) Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.
who hast laid the beams of thy chambers on the waters, who makest the clouds thy chariot, who ridest on the wings of the wind,
Who seeleth his vpper chaumbers with waters: and maketh the cloudes his charriot, and walketh vpon the wynges of the wynde.
Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.
laying the beams of his palaceon the waters above,making the clouds his chariot,walking on the wings of the wind,
He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
the one who sets beams in the waters for his upper chambers, who makes clouds his chariot, who rides on the wings of the wind,
who lays beams in the waters of His upper rooms; setting thick clouds as His chariots; walking on the wings of the wind.
Who is laying the beam of His upper chambers in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on wings of wind,
Thou voltest it aboue with waters, thou makest the cloudes thy charet, and goest vpon the wynges of the wynde.
He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks on the wings of the wind;
He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,
He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks upon the wings of the wind;
He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters;He sets up the clouds to be His chariot;He walks upon the wings of the wind;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Who layeth: Psalms 18:10, Psalms 18:11, Amos 9:6
maketh: Isaiah 19:1, Matthew 26:64, Revelation 1:7
walketh: Psalms 18:10, Psalms 139:9, 2 Samuel 22:11, Nahum 1:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:9 - General Deuteronomy 33:26 - rideth 2 Samuel 22:10 - darkness 2 Kings 2:11 - General 2 Kings 6:17 - full of horses Job 9:8 - Which Job 9:9 - General Job 30:22 - to ride Job 36:29 - the spreadings Job 37:9 - south Job 37:16 - the balancings Psalms 29:3 - many waters Psalms 65:11 - thy paths Psalms 68:4 - rideth Psalms 68:33 - rideth Psalms 104:13 - his chambers Psalms 136:6 - General Psalms 148:4 - waters Isaiah 40:12 - measured Ezekiel 1:4 - a great Daniel 7:9 - and his wheels Habakkuk 3:8 - ride Zechariah 6:5 - These Matthew 14:25 - walking Mark 6:48 - he cometh Revelation 10:1 - clothed
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters,.... Or "his upper rooms" i; one story over another being built by him in the heavens, Amos 9:6, the chambers where he resides; his courts, as the Targum; his palace and apartments, his presence chamber particularly, the floor and beams of them are the waters bound up in the thick clouds; or the region of the air, from whence the rain descends to water the hills, as in Psalms 104:13.
Who maketh the clouds his chariot; to ride in; in these sometimes Jehovah rides to execute judgment on his enemies, Isaiah 19:1 and in these sometimes he appears in a way of grace and mercy to his people,
Exodus 13:21, in these, as in chariots, Christ went up to heaven; and in these will he come a second time; and into these will the saints be caught up to meet the Lord in the air at his coming, Acts 1:9.
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind; see Psalms 18:10 which is expressive of his swiftness in coming to help and assist his people in time of need; who helps, and that right early; and may very well be applied both to the first and second coming of Christ, who came leaping upon the mountains, and skipping upon the hills, when he first came; and, when he comes a second time, will be as a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices, Song of Solomon 2:8. The Targum is,
"upon the swift clouds, like the wings of an eagle;''
hence, perhaps, it is, the Heathens have a notion of Jupiter's being carried in a chariot through the air, when it thunders and lightens k.
i עליותיו, υπερωα, Sept. "coenacula sua superiora", Gejerus; so Michaelis. k Vid. Horat. Camin. l. 1. Ode 34. v. 5. "Namque diespiter", &c. Et. Ode 12. v. 58. "Tu gravi curru quaties Olympum".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters - The word here rendered “layeth” - from קרה qârâh - means properly to meet; then, in Hiphil, to cause to meet, or to fit into each other, as beams or joists do in a dwelling. It is a word which would be properly applied to the construction of a house, and to the right adjustment of the different materials employed in building it. The word rendered “beams” - עליה ‛ălı̂yâh - means “an upper chamber, a loft,” such as rises, in Oriental houses, above the flat roof; in the New Testament, the ὑπερῷον huperōon, rendered “upper room,” Acts 1:13; Acts 9:37, Acts 9:39; Acts 20:8. It refers here to the chamber - the exalted abode of God - as if raised above all other edifices, or above the world. The word “waters” here refers to the description of the creation in Genesis 1:6-7 - the waters “above the firmament,” and the waters “below the firmament.” The allusion here is to the waters above the firmament; and the meaning is, that God had constructed the place of his own abode - the room where he dwelt - in those waters; that is, in the most exalted place in the universe. It does not mean that he made it of the waters, but that his home - his dwelling-place - was in or above those waters, as if he had built his dwelling not on solid earth or rock, but in the waters, giving stability to that which seems to have no stability, and making the very waters a foundation for the structure of his abode.
Who maketh the clouds his chariot - Who rides on the clouds as in a chariot. See the notes at Isaiah 19:1. Compare the notes at Psalms 18:11.
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind - See the notes at Psalms 18:10.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 104:3. המקרה במים עליותיו hamekareh bammayim aliyothaiv.
"Laying the beams of his chambers in the waters."
The sacred writer expresses the wonderful nature of the air aptly, and regularly constructed, from various and flux elements, into one continued and stable series, by a metaphor drawn from the singular formation of the tabernacle, which, consisting of many and different parts, and easily reparable when there was need, was kept together by a perpetual juncture and contignation of them all together. The poet goes on: -
השם עבים רכובו hassem abim rechubo,
המהלך על כנפי רוה hamehallech al canphey ruach.
"Making the clouds his chariot,
Walking upon the wings of the wind."
He had first expressed an image of the Divine Majesty, such as it resided in the holy of holies, discernible by a certain investiture of the most splendid light; he now denotes the same from that light of itself which the Divine Majesty exhibited, when it moved together with the ark, sitting on a circumambient cloud, and carried on high through the air. That seat of the Divine Presence is even called by the sacred historians, as its proper name, המרכבה hammercabah, THE CHARIOT.
