Psalms 104:6

6. Thou coveredst it with the deep The word “deep,” תהום , ( tehom,) means, agitated “deep,” “mass of raging waters,” flood. So Psalms 42:7. Compare Job 38:8, “Who shut up the sea… when it brake forth?” or, after it had broken forth. The language suits an unwonted, lawless condition of the waters of the ocean, answering to the geological theory of the drift period, immediately preceding the human or historic era. This description of the state of the earth prior to the first day’s work assumes the existence of land and water, and is against the notion of a chaos, the rudis indigestaque moles of Ovid. ( Metem., lib. 1:10.)

Mountains The existence of these before the “six days” of Moses is another important coincidence with modern science, and a total refutation of the heathen theory of a chaos, adopted by the old commentators.