This verse is often misinterpreted as a literal scientific description supporting a flat earth model suspended above a global ocean, ignoring its hymnic, poetic style rooted in ancient Near Eastern imagery of divine conquest over chaos waters; instead of endorsing modern pseudoscience, it poetically celebrates God's creative sovereignty without prescribing cosmology, leading some to wrongly dismiss biblical compatibility with spherical earth discoveries or spherical astronomy.
Psalms 136:6
King James Version (1769)
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 136:6 praises God's majestic power in creation, depicting Him as the one who stretched out the earth above the waters, a poetic allusion to the Genesis account where He separated the chaotic deep to form dry land suitable for life, all underscoring His enduring mercy that undergirds the stability and order of the universe as an act of faithful lovingkindness toward His people.