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93:3 \u201cThe streams lifted up, O LORD, the streams lifted up their voice, the streams lift up their roaring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The rising waters of the sea–it is not until the end of the second verset that the verb receives an object, \u201ctheir voice\u201d (or \u201ctheir sound), which turns it into an idiom used for human speech–are an antithesis to the firmly founded world and divine throne of the two previous verses. Although this poem may glance back, as many scholars have proposed, to Canaanite cosmogonic myths of the conquest of the primordial sea monster, the mythology is no more than a distant memory here. Indeed, the idea that God is \u201cforever,\u201d before all national entities, is an implicit argument against a primordial battle of the gods. This notion of creation as assuring the safety and firmness of the land against the sea is one that makes special sense for a culture flourishing along the edge of the Mediterranean (in biblical idiom, \u201cthe Great Sea\u201d). The waves pounding against the shore are a reminder of the precarious existence of the land dwellers, but God\u2019s majestic power, far greater even than the power of the sea, is a reassuring guarantee of the stability of civilized life. The forceful use of incremental repetition in this line–\u201dthe streams lifted up…\/the streams lifted up their voice\/ the streams lift up their roaring\u201d–may be deliberately deployed to suggest a wavelike movement in the formal pattern of the verse.<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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