Psalms Chapter 104 verse 8 Holy Bible
(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.
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The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.
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The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them; --
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They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
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The mountains rose, The valleys sank down, To the place which you had assigned to them.
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They go up hills -- they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys; rather, they went up mountains; they went down valleys. In the general commotion of the waters, as they "hasted away," sometimes vast waves swept over mountain tops, sometimes huge floods washed down the courses of valleys - a graphic description of the scene which no eye saw, but which the poet figures to himself - a turmoil and confusion beyond that even of the great Deluge itself (see Genesis 7:17-19; Genesis 8:1-3). Unto the place which thou hast (rather, hadst) founded for them. The ocean bed, which had, in intention, been already prepared to receive them.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) They go up.--This translation is grammatically possible, but is inconsistent with the preceding description. It is better therefore to take the clause parenthetically, and to make hills and valleys the subjects. Hills rise, valleys sink, an interesting anticipation of the disclosures of geology, which, though in a different sense, tells of the upheaval of mountains and depression of valleys. Two passages in Ovid have been adduced in illustration (Met. i. 43, 344). And Milton, no doubt with the psalm as well as Ovid in his mind, wrote"Immediately the mountains huge appearEmergent," &c--Paradise Lost, book vii.
