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Psalm 104:6

You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

4He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.
5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
6You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
8The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.
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Waters above the mountains stretch your sense of scale, while the cloak comparison portrays that vast covering as something God put in place.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 7:19The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.Both passages describe waters covering mountains, sharing a picture of the earth submerged beneath an immense depth.
Job 38:14It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.The shared thread is clothing imagery: the psalm compares the deep to a cloak, while Job describes a garment.
2 Peter 3:5For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,Both passages connect the earth’s waters with God’s action, with Peter naming God’s word as the means of formation.
Genesis 1:2–10The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.Both passages describe the deep and the waters in an account of the earth that names God’s presence or action.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.Both passages name mountains and address God, though Jonah speaks of rescue and the psalm describes the earth’s covering.
Genesis 7:20The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.Both passages picture mountains covered by water, while Genesis adds a measure of how far the waters rose.
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Encouragement

Even waters above the mountains belong to this account of God’s work; the next lines describe them fleeing at his rebuke. The deep is subject to his voice.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).