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Ps 104:8 King James They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
They go up by the mountains ... - That is, when they were gathered together into seas. They seemed to roll and tumble over hills and mountains, and to run down in valleys, until they found the deep hollows which had been formed for seas, and where they were permanently collected together. The margin here is, "The mountains ascend, the valleys descend." So it is translated in the Septuagint, in the Latin Vulgate, by Luther, and by DeWette. The more natural idea, however, is that in our translation: "They (the waters) go up mountains; they descend valleys."

Unto the place - The deep hollows of the earth, which seem to have been scooped out to make a place for them.

Which thou hast founded for them - Where thou hast laid a permanent foundation for them on which to rest; that is, which thou hast prepared for them.
 
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22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.