Psa 104:5-9 | NETfull | STEP | He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be upended.

Psalms 104:5-9

5 He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be upended.
6 The watery deep covered it ^{▼▼ Heb “you covered it.” The masculine suffix is problematic if the grammatically feminine noun “earth” is the antecedent. For this reason some emend the form to a feminine verb with feminine suffix, כִּסַּתָּה (kisattah, “[the watery deep] covered it [i.e., the earth]”), a reading assumed by the present translation.} like a garment;
the waters reached ^{▼▼ Heb “stood.”} above the mountains. ^{▼▼ Verse 6 refers to the condition described in Gen 1:2 (note the use of the Hebrew term תְּהוֹם [t^ehom, “watery deep”] in both texts).}
7 Your shout made the waters retreat;
at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off –
8 as the mountains rose up,
and the valleys went down –
to the place you appointed for them. ^{▼▼ Heb “from your shout they fled, from the sound of your thunder they hurried off.”} ^{▼▼ Verses 7–8 poetically depict Gen 1:9–10.}
9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross,
so that they would not cover the earth again. ^{▼▼ Heb “a boundary you set up, they will not cross, they will not return to cover the earth.”}