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How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!

Psalms 104:8

In 11 translations

BSB
the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—
KJV
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.They go up…: or, The mountains ascend, the valleys descend
WEB
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.
ASV
(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.
LSV
They go up hills—they go down valleys, || To a place You have founded for them.
YLT
They go up hills — they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.
DBY
The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them; —
DRC103:8
The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.
GNV
And the mountaines ascend, and the valleis descend to the place which thou hast established for them.
JPS
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down — unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;
LXXE103:8
They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which thou hast founded for them.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
יַעֲל֣וּ הָ֭רִים יֵרְד֣וּ בְקָע֑וֹת אֶל־מְ֝ק֗וֹם זֶ֤ה ׀ יָסַ֬דְתָּ לָהֶֽם׃
LXX-Br103:8
Ἀναβαίνουσιν ὄρη, καὶ καταβαίνουσι πεδία εἰς τόπον ὃν ἐθεμελίωσας αὐτοῖς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 8:5And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
  • Psalms 33:7He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 103:8 in some Bibles
  • 104:8 in most Bibles

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