You can scratch your head all day pondering the spiritual truth behind a supposed metaphor, or you can take it literally and deduce that the Earth above the waters refers to the crust and mantle.
The Earth Above the Waters
The Great Deep
The deep and the great deep are both translated from the same Hebrew word, tehom. The difference signifies a transition from the deep where Earth was created to when the great deep is in the interior of the Earth.
The Beams of His Chambers
"The beams of his chambers" isn't poetry. Well, yes it is poetry, but it's not poetry for poetry's sake. This describes the pillars of the