5. You established the earth on its foundationsso that it will never ever fall.
6. You covered it with the watery deep like a piece of clothing;the waters were higher than the mountains!
7. But at your rebuke they ran away;they fled in fear at the sound of your thunder.
8. They flowed over the mountains,streaming down the valleysto the place you established for them.
9. You set a boundary they cannot crossso they’ll never again cover the earth.
10. You put gushing springs into dry riverbeds.They flow between the mountains,
11. providing water for every wild animal—the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12. Overhead, the birds in the sky make their home,chirping loudly in the trees.