“In Hebrew, mayim is the word for water and elohim is the name of God used in the first two verses. Mayim and elohim rhyme; water and God are therefore paired in Hebrew. It is part of the poignancy of the psalm, this rhyme of the visible and the invisible, the knowable and the unknowable.”

“In Hebrew, mayim is the word for water and elohim is the name of God used in the first two verses. Mayim and elohim rhyme; water and God are therefore paired in Hebrew. It is part of the poignancy of the psalm, this rhyme of the visible and the invisible, the knowable and the unknowable.”

— Aviya Kushner