Psalm 104:6 {103:6}
Good News Translation
You placed the ocean over it like a robe, and the water covered the mountains.

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

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

New American Bible
The deeps covered it like a garment; above the mountains stood the waters.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

Genesis 1:2-10 And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters. . . .

Genesis 7:19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

2 Peter 3:5 For this they are wilfully ignorant of: That the heavens were before, and the earth out of water and through water, consisting by the word of God:

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
5Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever. 6The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.7At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

Genesis 1:9
God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.

Job 38:8
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

Amos 9:6
And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the earth, and it shall melt: and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up as a river, and shall run down as the river of Egypt.

Psalm 104:5
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