Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
covered the deep—as mourners cover their heads in token of mourning, "I made the deep that watered the cedar" to wrap itself in mourning for him. The waters of the deep are the tributary peoples of Assyria (Revelation 17:15).
fainted—literally, were "faintness" (itself); more forcible than the verb.
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