Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
New American Standard Bible
So that they will not return to cover the earth.
King James Version
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Holman Bible
they will never cover the earth again.
International Standard Version
You have set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.
American Standard Version
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Amplified
You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.
Bible in Basic English
You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
Darby Translation
Thou hast set a bound which they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou didst set a bound they shall not pass over; they shall not turn bark to cover the earth.
King James 2000
You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You set a boundary that they may not cross over, [so that] they would not return to cover the earth.
Modern King James verseion
You have set a bound that they may not pass over, so that they do not turn again to cover the earth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast set them their bounds, which they may not pass, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
NET Bible
You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
New Heart English Bible
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they do not turn again to cover the earth.
The Emphasized Bible
Bounds, hast thou set, which they are not to pass over, They are not to return to cover the earth.
Webster
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
World English Bible
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
Youngs Literal Translation
A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.
Themes
Earth » Primitive condition of
Mountains » Are the sources of springs and rivers
Power » Divine power over nature exhibited by Christ, general examples of » The sea controlled
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Preserving the course of nature
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 104:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Creation And Providence
8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou had founded for them. 9 Thou have set a bound that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth. 10 He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.
Cross References
Genesis 9:11-15
And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor shall there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.
Job 26:10
He has described a boundary upon the face of the waters, to the confines of light and darkness.
Job 38:10-11
and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,
Jeremiah 5:22
Do ye not fear me? says LORD. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet they cannot prevai
Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in store-houses.
Isaiah 54:9
For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with thee, nor rebuke thee.