Psalms 104:6

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

to him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.

Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?