Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Spreadeth out. "He stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in" (Isaiah 40:22; Psalms 104:2). But throughout it is not so much God's creating, as His governing power over nature that is set forth. A storm seems a struggle between Nature and her Lord! Better, therefore, 'Who boweth х naaTaah (H5186)] the heavens alone,' without help of any other (Maurer). God descends from the bowed-down heaven to the earth - "He bowed the heavens, and came down" (Psalms 18:9). The storm, wherein the clouds descend, suggests this image. In the descent of the vault of heaven, God has come down from His high throne, and walks majestic over the mountain waves (Hebrew, heights), as a conqueror taming their violence. So tread upon. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places" (Deuteronomy 33:29; Amos 4:13); "Jesus walking on the sea" (Matthew 14:26). The Egyptian hieroglyphic for impossibility is a man walking on waves.