They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The. Descend. This should be within a parenthesis, (Berthier) as the sequel speaks of the waters. (Haydock)
Earth. This seemed miraculous to those who supposed that the earth was flat. (St. Ambrose; Hex. iii. 22.) (Job vii. 12., and Amos v. 8.) (Calmet)
Providence points out the place for every thing. (Haydock)
Jussit et extendi campos (Ovid, Met. i.)
God derogated from this law, which he had appointed for the waters, when he brought them again to overwhelm the guilty earth. (Haydock)