⁷ All streams flow into the sea,
    yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
    there they return again.^(A)

¹⁰ when I fixed limits for it^(A)
    and set its doors and bars in place,^(B)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;^(C)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?^(D)

⁶ You covered it^(A) with the watery depths^(B) as with a garment;
    the waters stood^(C) above the mountains.
⁷ But at your rebuke^(D) the waters fled,
    at the sound of your thunder^(E) they took to flight;
⁸ they flowed over the mountains,
    they went down into the valleys,
    to the place you assigned^(F) for them.
⁹ You set a boundary^(G) they cannot cross;
    never again will they cover the earth.