Psalms 104:6

The watery deep covered it ¹  like a garment; the waters reached ²  above the mountains. ³ 

Ge 1:2-10; Ge 7:19; 2Pe 3:5

¹ tc Heb “you covered it.” The masculine suffix is problematic if the grammatically feminine noun “earth” is the antecedent. For this reason some emend the form to a feminine verb with feminine suffix, כִּסַּתָּה (kisattah, “[the watery deep] covered it [i.e., the earth]”), a reading assumed by the present translation.

² tn Heb “stood.”

³ sn Verse 6 refers to the condition described in Gen 1:2 (note the use of the Hebrew term תְּהוֹם [tÿhom, “watery deep”] in both texts).