Psalm 104:6-9

New Catholic Bible

⁶You covered it with the deep like a cloak;
    the waters rose above the mountains.
⁷At your rebuke^[a] the waters took to flight;
    at the sound of your thunder they fled in terror.
⁸They rose up to the mountains
    and flowed down to the valleys,^[b]
    to the place that you had designated for them.
⁹You established a boundary that they were not to cross
    so that they would never again cover the earth.

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Footnotes

Psalm 104:7 Rebuke: see Ps 76:7. Waters took to flight: poetic description of what took place on the third day of creation (see Gen 1:9f).
Psalm 104:8 They rose up to the mountains and flowed down to the valleys: the sources of the Jordan and the other great rivers of the Near East are in the mountains. Another translation offered is: “The mountains rose high and the valleys went down.”

Psalm 104:6-9

EasyEnglish Bible

⁶You covered the earth with deep water,
    like a coat.
The water covered the tops of the mountains.
⁷But when you shouted,
    the water went back.
It ran away,
    when you shouted like thunder.
⁸The water poured down from the mountains,
    and it went down into the valleys.
It went to stay in the place that you had chosen for it.
⁹You made a border for the water
    so that it could not cross.
Never again will the water cover the earth.^[a]