Psalms 104:6

6 You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalms 104:6 in Other Translations

6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

6 You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

6 You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters;

6 You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalms 104:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 104:6

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.

Psalms 104:6 In-Context

4 He makes winds his messengers,flames of fire his servants.

5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

6 You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

7 But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;

8 they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 7:19
• 2. S Genesis 1:2
• 3. 2 Peter 3:6