Psalm 104:6
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New International Version (©2011)
You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

NET Bible (©2006)
The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
The deep was like a cloak for its covering and above the mountains the waters rose up.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You covered the earth with an ocean as though it were a robe. Water stood above the mountains

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

American King James Version
You covered it with the deep as with a garment: 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:

English Revised Version
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

104:1-9 Every object we behold calls on us to bless and praise the Lord, who is great. His eternal power and Godhead are clearly shown by the things which he hath made. God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. The Lord Jesus, the Son of his love, is the Light of the world.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - Thou coveredst it with the deep, as with a garment (see Genesis 1:9). A watery covering was spread at first over the whole earth, and enveloped it like a garment. The waters stood above the mountains. The highest inequalities of the land were concealed under the watery integument.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou coverest it with the deep as with a garment,.... This refers not to the waters of the flood, when the earth was covered with them, even the tops of the highest mountains; but to the huge mass of waters, the abyss and depth of them, which lay upon the earth and covered it as a garment, at its first creation, as the context and the scope of it show; and which deep was covered with darkness, at which time the earth was without form, and void, Genesis 1:2 an emblem of the corrupt state of man by nature, destitute of the image of God, void and empty of all that is good, having an huge mass of sin and corruption on him, and being darkness itself; though this depth does not separate the elect of God, in this state, from his love; nor these aboundings of sin hinder the superaboundings of the grace of God; nor the operations of his Spirit; nor the communication of light unto them; nor the forming and renewing them, so as to become a curious piece of workmanship; even as the state of the original earth did not hinder the moving of the Spirit upon the waters that covered it, to the bringing of it into a beautiful form and order.

The waters stood above the mountains; from whence we learn the mountains were from the beginning of the creation; since they were when the depths of water covered the unformed chaos; and which depths were so very great as to reach above the highest mountains; an emblem of the universal corruption of human nature; the highest, the greatest men that ever were, comparable to mountains, have been involved in it, as David, Paul, and others.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6-9. These verses rather describe the wonders of the flood than the creation (Ge 7:19, 20; 2Pe 3:5, 6). God's method of arresting the flood and making its waters subside is poetically called a "rebuke" (Ps 76:6; Isa 50:2), and the process of the flood's subsiding by undulations among the hills and valleys is vividly described.

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O Lord, My God, You are Very Great
…5Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. 6You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hurried away. …

Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so.
Job 38:8 "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
Amos 5:8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns midnight into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land-- the LORD is his name.
Amos 9:6 he builds his lofty palace in the heavens and sets its foundation on the earth; he calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land-- the LORD is his name.