3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually:
3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,
3 Inch by inch the water lowered. After 150 days the worst was over.
3 And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
3 So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150Â days,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 8:3
Commentary on Genesis 8:1-3
(Read Genesis 8:1-3)
The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, were now dead, so that God's remembering Noah, was the return of his mercy to mankind, of whom he would not make a full end. The demands of Divine justice had been answered by the ruin of sinners. God sent his wind to dry the earth, and seal up his waters. The same hand that brings the desolation, must bring the deliverance; to that hand, therefore, we must ever look. When afflictions have done the work for which they are sent, whether killing work or curing work, they will be taken away. As the earth was not drowned in a day, so it was not dried in a day. God usually works deliverance for his people gradually, that the day of small things may not be despised, nor the day of great things despaired of.