Psalms 104:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Psalms 104:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 38:10-11
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, …
Genesis 9:11-15
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. …
Isaiah 54:9
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Job 26:10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

When we are addressing ourselves to any religious service we must stir up ourselves to take hold on God in it (Isa. 64:7); so David does here. “Come, my soul, where art thou? What art thou thinking of? Here is work to be done, good work, angels’ work; set about it in good earnest; let all the powers and faculties be engaged and employed in it: Bless the Lord, O my soul!” In these verses, I. The ps…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

6-9. These verses rather describe the wonders of the flood than the creation (Ge 7:19, 20; 2Pe 3:5, 6). God’s method of arresting the flood and making its waters subside is poetically called a “rebuke” (Psa 76:6; Is 50:2), and the process of the flood’s subsiding by undulations among the hills and valleys is vividly described.