# The waters saw you ... they were afraid ... the depths trembled

Asaph speaks of the water as if it were a person who saw something that terrified him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]])

# the waters saw you, and they were afraid; the depths trembled

"water" and "depth" refers to large bodies of water such as the sea or ocean. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublet]])

# depths

deepest waters