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
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