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Psalm 104:8

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

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.
10He sends springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.
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Notice

Mountains rising and valleys sinking draw your attention to the scale of God's rule: even the shape of the land answers to his command.

Questions to write on. Each one opens a new entry with this verse already attached.

What landscape comes to mind as you read of mountains rising and valleys sinking?

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How does the phrase “you had assigned to them” shape your response to that landscape?

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Connect

Where else Scripture says this

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

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Genesis 8:5Both passages describe mountains within a changing landscape; Genesis records their tops becoming visible as the floodwaters recede.
Psalm 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.Both passages portray God ordering creation, assigning places to the land or gathering the sea's waters.
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 mention mountains and address God, though Jonah speaks of rescue from the depths rather than the ordering of land.
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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 104:6–10 aloud, tracing the land and water

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Encouragement

There is room for wonder before land so much larger than yourself. The mountains and valleys in this song have their places under God's rule.

Now put it in your words.

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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).