Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:
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;
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment, so that the waters stand above the hills.
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
Kacah
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 104:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Creation And Providence
5 He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be removed for ever. 6 Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains: 7 At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; --
Cross References
Genesis 7:19
And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.
Genesis 1:2-10
And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
2 Peter 3:5
For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,