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    setting the beams of your chambers upon the waters.[a]
You make the clouds your chariot;
    traveling on the wings of the wind.
You make the winds your messengers;
    flaming fire, your ministers.(A)

II

[b]You fixed the earth on its foundation,
    so it can never be shaken.

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Footnotes

  1. 104:3 Your chambers upon the waters: God’s heavenly dwelling above the upper waters of the sky, cf. Gn 1:6–7; Ps 29:10.
  2. 104:5–9 God places the gigantic disk of the earth securely on its foundation and then, as a warrior, chases away the enveloping waters and confines them under, above, and around the earth.

    and lays the beams(A) of his upper chambers on their waters.(B)
He makes the clouds(C) his chariot(D)
    and rides on the wings of the wind.(E)
He makes winds his messengers,[a](F)
    flames of fire(G) his servants.

He set the earth(H) on its foundations;(I)
    it can never be moved.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 104:4 Or angels