“The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.”
The waters' threat: "The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring." The repeated invocation of the floods emphasizes their power and noise. Water (symbol of chaos) is personified as threatening.
Church Fathers on Psalms 93:3
1. ...It is entitled, “The Song of praise of David himself, on the day before the Sabbath, when the earth was founded.” Remembering then what God did through all those days, when He made and ordained all things, from the first up to the sixth day (for the seventh He sanctified, because He rested on that day after all the works, which He made very good), we find that He created on the sixth day (which day is here mentioned, in that he says, “before the Sabbath”) all animals on…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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