¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

¹⁵ Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

² Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;

³ Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah

⁶ Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

⁷ At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away

⁸ (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.

⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.

²³ Truly in vain is `the help that is looked for' from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

⁶ by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: