Psalm 104:5-9
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KJV
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
5 He set the earth on its foundations,
so that it should never be moved.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At your rebuke they fled;
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
to the place that you appointed for them.
9 You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.
A Creation Record
See The Primal Sea.
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Literal Reading
Verses 5-9 are cited here as "accepting" events of early Genesis (in this case, a universal flood) "as literally true". See comment here. —BP
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Re The Foundations of the Earth, see 1 Samuel 2:8, and for a contrary view uncommon among Christadelphians, Jeremiah 31:37. Very few modern Bible believers accept the ancient cosmology literally.
Language note
- Note the heterosis of person, changing from 3rd Person "he" to 2nd Person "thou"/"you" as it was in verse 2.
- Note also the change from present tense praise in verses 2-4 to past tense here.
