# Who shut up the sea with doors ... and thick darkness its swaddling bands?

This can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "Tell me who shut up the sea with doors ... and thick darkness its swaddling bands." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

# its clothing

"as clothes for the sea"

# thick darkness its swaddling bands

The abstract noun "darkness" can be translated as the adjective "dark." Alternate translation: "made dark clouds its swaddling bands" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])

# swaddling bands

long pieces of cloth that people use to wrap a baby in after it is born