Psalms 104:6
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. ▼
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