Psalm 104:8 {103:8}
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The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.

they go up, etc.

Genesis 8:5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
7At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear. 8The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.9Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth.…
Cross References
Psalm 33:7
Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.

Psalm 104:9
Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth.

Lexicon
the mountains
הָ֭רִים (hā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

rose
יַעֲל֣וּ (ya·‘ă·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

and the valleys
בְקָע֑וֹת (ḇə·qā·‘ō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1237: A split, a wide level valley between mountains

sank
יֵרְד֣וּ (yê·rə·ḏū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3381: To come or go down, descend

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

the place
מְ֝ק֗וֹם (mə·qō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

You appointed
יָסַ֬דְתָּ (yā·saḏ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3245: To set, to found, to sit down together, settle, consult

for them—
לָהֶֽם׃ (lā·hem)
Preposition-l | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: They


Additional Translations
the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You appointed for them—They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which you have founded for them.

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

They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which thou hast founded for them.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them; --

They went up by the mountains, they went down by the valleys, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which thou hast founded for them.

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

They go up hills -- they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.
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