until the highest mountains were completely submerged beneath the rising waters.
Then long afterward he destroyed the world with a tremendous flood by those very waters.
We see it now. Our idolatrous worship on the high places and our noisy commotion on the mountains were nothing but delusions. Only you, Yahweh our God, can save us.
The raging flood completely inundated the earth, but the ark floated safely, drifting upon the surface of the water,
The waters rose over twenty-two feet above the highest mountains.