19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.(A)

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

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By these waters also the world of that time(A) was deluged and destroyed.(B)

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23 Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills(A)
    and mountains is a deception;
surely in the Lord our God
    is the salvation(B) of Israel.

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Therefore we will not fear,(A) though the earth give way(B)
    and the mountains fall(C) into the heart of the sea,(D)
though its waters roar(E) and foam(F)
    and the mountains quake(G) with their surging.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 46:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 11.

15 If he holds back the waters,(A) there is drought;(B)
    if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.(C)

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