⁴ Praise him, you highest heavens^(A)
    and you waters above the skies.^(B)

²⁸ when he established the clouds above^(A)
    and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,^(B)
29 when he gave the sea its boundary^(C)
    so the waters would not overstep his command,^(D)
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.^(E)

⁸ “Who shut up the sea behind doors^(A)
    when it burst forth from the womb,^(B)
9 when I made the clouds its garment
    and wrapped it in thick darkness,^(C)
10 when I fixed limits for it^(D)
    and set its doors and bars in place,^(E)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;^(F)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?^(G)

⁸ He wraps up the waters^(A) in his clouds,^(B)
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

³ If clouds are full of water,
    they pour rain on the earth.
Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,
    in the place where it falls, there it will lie.