Chapter 104

2022 - This might be titled "The Creation Psalm".  There are a lot of clues here about how, when, and why God did things.  For instance "stretching out the heavens like a tent".  Can you make the big bang resemble that?  What does that look like in the part of the world and the time of the psalmist?  How they set up a tent back then?  Vs 6, the earth was "put in place", THEN covered with water, THEN the land appeared.  I don't think science sees it that way.  Hot rocks, cooling, then comets brought water...but never enough to completely cover the earth.  A big mismatch here.  Then "topography" was modified so that dry land came up out of the water as valleys sank down.  BUT, the fountains of the deep were inserted too, to hold all that extra water.  Beginning in 10, life appears, because the earth was made as it was in order to support life.  It is not a random thing that earth supports life.  Design is there from the beginning.

Starts with "Bless the Lord, Oh my soul...", as 103 also opened and closed.

The first stanza praises God, and begins a retelling of the Genesis creation story.  I have used MSB pretty extensively to help me with the delineations here.  Verses one through nine are about the first two days of creation.

5 He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. 8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. 9 You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth. [Psa 104:5-9 ESV]

There was earth first, created by God, and then he covered it completely with water...as it was in Noah's flood.  Then earth came up out of the water, and boundaries were set - presumably for water, mountains, and valleys all - so that the approximate land area of earth no longer changes.

vvs 10-18, The third day.  Fresh water, so that animals and plants could be sustained. 

vvs 19-23, the fourth day.  Active times for predatory animals contrasted with the work time of men.  God made it this way to minimize contact between them?  (Before or after the flood?)  These verses talk about the sun and moon also.

vvs 24-26, the fifth day.

vvs 27-30, the sixth day...but man is not mentioned here.

The last verses refer to a future time when creation is unpolluted by sin.