The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Psalms 104:6
Thou coverest it with the deep as with a garment…
This
refers not to the waters of the flood, when the earth was covered with
them, even the tops of the highest mountains; but to the huge mass of
waters, the abyss and depth of them, which lay upon the earth and
covered it as a garment, at its first creation, as the context and the
scope of it show; and which deep was covered with darkness, at which
time the earth was without form, and void, (Genesis 1:2) an emblem of the
corrupt state of man by nature, destitute of the image of God, void and
empty of all that is good, having an huge mass of sin and corruption on
him, and being darkness itself; though this depth does not separate the
elect of God, in this state, from his love; nor these aboundings of sin
hinder the superaboundings of the grace of God; nor the operations of
his Spirit; nor the communication of light unto them; nor the forming
and renewing them, so as to become a curious piece of workmanship; even
as the state of the original earth did not hinder the moving of the
Spirit upon the waters that covered it, to the bringing of it into a
beautiful form and order.
The waters stood above the mountains;
from whence we learn the
mountains were from the beginning of the creation; since they were when
the depths of water covered the unformed chaos; and which depths were
so very great as to reach above the highest mountains; an emblem of the
universal corruption of human nature; the highest, the greatest men
that ever were, comparable to mountains, have been involved in it, as
David, Paul, and others.
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