⁷ All streams run to the sea,
    but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
    there they continue to flow.

¹⁰ and prescribed bounds for it,
    and set bars and doors,^(A)
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
    and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?^(B)

⁶ You cover it with the deep as with a garment;
    the waters stood above the mountains.^(A)
7 At your rebuke they flee;
    at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.
⁸ They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys,
    to the place that you appointed for them.^(B)
9 You set a boundary that they may not pass,
    so that they might not again cover the earth.^(C)