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Psalm 104:7
At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
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.
9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
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The waters flee at God's rebuke, a startling picture of creation responding to a voice whose authority exceeds even the deep above the mountains.
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Psalm 18:15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.God's rebuke moves the waters in both psalms, exposing the world's foundations in Psalm 18 and sending the deep fleeing in Psalm 104.
Psalm 18:13The LORD also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.Both psalms describe thunder as God's voice, giving the sound a personal source and an expression of his might.
Mark 4:39He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm.Psalm 104 describes waters fleeing God's rebuke; Mark describes Jesus rebuking the wind and commanding the sea to be still.
Genesis 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.Waters retreat through God's action in both passages: at his rebuke in the psalm and through wind in Genesis.
Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel languish. The flower of Lebanon languishes.Both passages portray waters yielding to God's rebuke, with Nahum describing the sea and rivers drying up.
Psalm 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.God rebukes waters in both psalms; Psalm 106 names the Red Sea and describes a passage through its depths.
Proverbs 8:28Both passages concern waters in God's creation, though Proverbs describes the springs of the deep becoming strong rather than waters fleeing.
Psalm 114:3–7The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.Both psalms picture water fleeing, with Psalm 114 naming the sea and the Jordan as waters that retreat.
Job 36:29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?Thunder belongs to God's presence in both passages: his voice in the psalm and the thunderings of his pavilion in Job.
Job 37:2Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.Both passages portray God's voice as an audible force, emphasizing its sound and, in the psalm, the waters' response.
Jeremiah 51:16When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the …God's voice and moving waters appear together in both passages, with Jeremiah describing a roar of waters in the heavens.
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The waters above the mountains are subject to God's voice. Their vastness does not diminish his rule; at his rebuke, they flee.
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