Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment, so that the waters stand above the hills.
New American Standard Bible
The waters were standing above the mountains.
King James Version
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
Holman Bible
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
International Standard Version
You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.
A Conservative Version
Thou covered it with the deep as with a vesture. The waters stood above the mountains.
American Standard Version
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.
Amplified
You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.
Bible in Basic English
Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;
Darby Translation
Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:
Julia Smith Translation
The deep thou coveredst it as a garment: the waters will stand upon the mountains.
King James 2000
You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You covered it with [the] deep as with a garment. [The] waters stood above [the] mountains.
Modern King James verseion
You covered the deep as with a robe; the waters stand above the mountains.
NET Bible
The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.
New Heart English Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
The Emphasized Bible
With the resounding deep - as a garment, hast thou covered it, Above the mountains, stand the waters;
Webster
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
World English Bible
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
Youngs Literal Translation
The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.
Themes
Earth » Primitive condition of
Mountains » Collect the vapors which ascend from the earth
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving the course of nature
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 104:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Creation And Providence
5 Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth, that it never should move at any time. 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment, so that the waters stand above the hills. 7 But at thy rebuke they flee, at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid.
Cross References
Genesis 7:19
And the waters prevailed exceedingly above measure upon the earth, so that all the high hills which are under all the parts of heaven were covered:
Genesis 1:2-10
The Earth was void and empty and darkness was upon the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the water.
2 Peter 3:5
This they know not - and that willingly: how that the heavens a great while ago were, and the earth that was in the water appeared up out of the water by the word of God: