They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.
They go up hills--they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them; —
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk6
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 33:7He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
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the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…
At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will…
And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
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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.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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Voices3
The mountains ascend, and the plains descend. He signifies the rush of the waters, because after the manner of mountains the waters rise up on high, and again are brought low.
Jerome· Homily 30, on Psalm 103, 420patristic
They go up by the mountains, they go down by the valleys,.... The Targum is, "they ascend out of the deep to the mountains;'' that is, the waters, when they went off the earth at the divine orders, steered their course up the mountains, and then went down by the valleys to the place appointed for them; they went over hills and dales, nothing could stop them or retard their course till they came to their proper place; which is another instance of the almighty power of the Son of God.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
. Ver. 8. The vanquished waters are henceforth obedient. They go up by the mountains, climbing in the form of clouds even to the summits of the Alps. They go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them: they are as willing to descend in rain, and brooks, and torrents as they were eager to ascend in mists.
The verses this one reaches5
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
And 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.
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
